Description: "The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In [this book], David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire"--
Review Quotes: "The United States of War is a clarion call for fundamental transformation of U.S. society and culture away from militarism."-- "New Mexico Historical Review"