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100 1  Dower, John W. 
245 10 Cultures of war :|bPearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq /
       |cJohn W. Dower. 
250    1st ed. 
260    New York :|bW.W. Norton :|bNew Press,|cc2010. 
300    xxxvii, 596 p. :|bill. ;|c25 cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  pt. 1. "Pearl Harbor" as code: wars of choice and failures
       of intelligence -- Infamy and the cracked mirror of 
       history : "Pearl Harbor" as code ; The boomerang of "Pearl
       Harbor" -- The failure of intelligence : Prelude to Pearl 
       Harbor ; Prelude to 9-11 ; Postmortems: Pearl Harbor ; 
       Postmortems: 9-11 -- The failure of imagination : "Little 
       yellow sons-of-bitches" ; Rationality, desperation, and 
       risk ; Aiding and abetting the enemy ; "This little 
       terrorist in Afghanistan" -- Innocence, evil, and amnesia 
       : Catastrophe and the transfer of innocence ; Evil and the
       transfer of evil ; Amnesia and Frankenstein's monster ; 
       Evil where the price is worth it -- Wars of choice and 
       strategic imbecilities : Pearl Harbor and "Operation Iraqi
       Freedom" ; The emperor system and imperial presidency ; 
       Choosing war ; Strategic imbecilities ; Deception and 
       delusion ; Victory disease and the gates of hell -- "Pearl
       Harbor" as godsend ---- pt. 2. Ground Zero 1945 and Ground
       Zero 2001: terror and mass destruction -- "Hiroshima" as 
       code -- Air war and terror bombing in World War II : Ghost
       cities ; Extirpating "noncombatants" ; "Increasing the 
       terror" in Germany ; Targeting Japan ; Firebombing the 
       great cities ; "Burn jobs" and "secondary targets" ; 
       Morale, shock, and psychological warfare -- "The most 
       terrible bomb in the history of the world" : Ground zeroes
       ; Anticipating zero ; Becoming death ; Ending the war and 
       saving American lives -- The irresistible logic of mass 
       destruction : Brute force ; August 1945 and the rejected 
       alternatives ; Unconditional surrender ; Power politics 
       and the Cold War ; Partisan politics -- Sweetness, beauty,
       and idealistic annihilation : Scientific sweetness and 
       technological imperatives ; Technocratic momentum and the 
       war machine ; The aesthetics of mass destruction ; Revenge
       ; Idealistic annihilation -- New evils in the world: 1945/
       2001 : Evil beyond recall ; Arrogating God ; Holy war 
       against the west: seisen and jihad ; Ground zeroes: state 
       and nonstate terror ; Managing savagery ---- pt. 3. Wars 
       and occupations: winning the peace, losing the peace -- 
       Occupied Japan and occupied Iraq : Winning the war, losing
       the peace ; Occupied Japan and the eye of the beholder ; 
       Incommensurable worlds ; Planning postwar Japan ; Eyes 
       wide shut: occupying Iraq ; Repudiating nation building ; 
       Baghdad burning -- Convergence of a sort: law, justice, 
       and transgression : Jiggering the law ; Legal and illegal 
       occupation ; War crimes and the ricochet of victor's 
       justice ; Spheres of influence and the limbo of defeated 
       armies ; Dissipating intangible assets -- Nation building 
       and market fundamentalism : Controls and capitalisms ; 
       Corruption and crime ; Successful and disastrous 
       demilitarization ; "Generalists" versus "area experts" ; 
       Privatizing nation building ; Rendering Iraq "open for 
       business" ; Aid in two eras ; Combating carpetbagging in 
       an earlier time ; Mixed legacies in an age of forgetting -
       - Epilogue: Fools' errands and fools' gold : Secular 
       priesthoods and faith-based policies ; Fools' errands ; 
       Fools' gold. 
520    A groundbreaking comparative study of the dynamics and 
       pathologies of war in modern times. Over recent decades, 
       Pulitzer-winning historian John W. Dower has addressed the
       roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. 
       Here he examines the cultures of war revealed by four 
       powerful events--Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and the 
       invasion of Iraq in the name of a war on terror. The list 
       of issues examined and themes explored is wide-ranging: 
       failures of intelligence and imagination, wars of choice 
       and "strategic imbecilities," faith-based secular thinking
       as well as more overtly holy wars, the targeting of 
       noncombatants, and the almost irresistible logic--and 
       allure--of mass destruction. Dower also sets the U.S. 
       occupations of Japan and Iraq side by side in strikingly 
       original ways. He offers comparative insights into 
       individual and institutional behavior and pathologies that
       transcend "cultures" in the more traditional sense, and 
       that ultimately go beyond war-making alone.--From 
       publisher description. 
650  0 War and society|zUnited States. 
650  0 Strategic culture|zUnited States. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945. 
650  0 Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941|xInfluence. 
650  0 September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001|xInfluence. 
650  0 September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001. 
650  0 Iraq War, 2003-2011. 
651  0 United States|xHistory, Military|y20th century. 
651  0 United States|xHistory, Military|y21st century. 
651  0 United States|xMilitary policy. 
651  0 Hiroshima-shi (Japan)|xHistory|yBombardment, 1945
       |xInfluence. 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
655  7 Military history.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411630