Description: Militarizing Culture is a rousing critique of the increasing infiltration of military culture into American society by leading cultural commentator. Despite its pervasiveness, González insists that warfare is not an inevitable part of human nature, and charts a path toward the decommissioning of culture.
Review Quotes:
"This critically important book pulls back the shades to reveal the true face of the US empire project. Roberto González takes us through how, from an early age, Americans become desensitized to militarism and how vast swaths of our culture are steeped in it. We are shown a spy camp for children in Washington DC designed to increase the pool of future applicants for spy agencies. We are also shown how, via a process of 'normalizing the unthinkable, ' torture has become accepted by a large portion of US citizens as a legitimate tool for American foreign policy. As a result, social scientists have volunteered for the Human Terrain System, an integral part of the US military's machinery that aims to colonize the people of Iraq and Afghanistan by using "cultural knowledge" to better wage the so-called war on terror. Militarizing Culture is a must read for those who want to know the truth, and for those who want to do something about it."
--Dahr Jamail, independent journalist and author of Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Iraq