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How is it that the United States-a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power-came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military readiness, why does Congress still continue to support massive defense budgets? In __The American Warfare State__, Rebecca U. Thorpe argues that there are profound relationships among the size and persistence of the American military complex, the growth in presidential power to launch military actions, and the decline of congressional willingness to check this power. The public costs of military mobilization and war, including the need for conscription and higher tax rates, served as political constraints on warfare for most of American history. But the vast defense industry that emerged from World War II also created new political interests that the framers of the Constitution did not anticipate. Many rural and semirural areas became economically reliant on defense-sector jobs and capital, which gave the legislators representing them powerful incentives to press for ongoing defense spendin

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Author

Rebecca U. Thorpe

Publisher

University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226124070

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Military, Political Science, Government & Politics

Rating

3.9 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14