17. Timeline: Major Events in U.S. Military History, 1890–2017

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: War, the Military, and American Culture 1
4. 1. War and Justice 11
5. 2. American Empire 31
6. 3. Domestic Politics and Antiwar Activism 47
7. 4. The Military-Industrial Complex 67
8. 5. Military Demographics 87
9. 6. Combat 108
10. 7. Veterans and Veterans’ Issues 127
11. 8. War, Persecution, and Displacement: U.S. Refugee Policy since 1945 147
12. 9. Race and/in War 168
13. 10. Gender, the Military, and War 195
14. 11. The Embodiment of War: Bodies for, in, and after War 217
15. 12. War and the Environment 240
16. 13. Communications Media, the U.S. Military, and the War Brought Home 258
17. 14. War in Visual Culture 279
18. 15. War and Film 308
19. 16. War and Memory 331
20. 17. Timeline: Major Events in U.S. Military History, 1890–2017 356
21. Acknowledgments 380
22. Notes on Contributors 382
23. Index 385