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Three leading experts on the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy offer separate evaluations of Bernd Greiner's book War without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam. The book presents a harsh and controversial appraisal of the conduct of U.S. troops in Vietnam, depicting the My Lai massacre not as an aberration but as one of a long series of atrocities committed by U.S. personnel. The three commentators diverge in their assessments of the book. Andrew Bacevich and Edwin Moïse sharply criticize the book, which they see as one-sided and often tendentious, selective, and inaccurate in its use of evidence. Bacevich argues that the book is intended in part, if only subconsciously, to bolster revisionist German claims about the conduct of Germany during the Second World War, and Moïse casts doubt on Greiner's use of key sources. Mark Lawrence, by contrast, praises the book and believes that it will help to refocus study of U.S. conduct in Vietnam. The forum concludes with a reply by Greiner to the three commentaries.

Part I: Making American Wars -- The Age of Global Power -- Hard Sell: The Korean War -- U.S. Opposition to War in Korea and Vietnam -- "The Same Struggle for Liberty": Korea and Vietnam -- Counting the Bodies in Vietnam -- Part II: Unlimited War, Limited Memory -- The Big Sleep -- Bombing Civilians: From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- Permanent War -- US in Asia; US in Iraq: Lessons not Learned -- "I Was Thinking, as I Often Do These Days, of War": The United States in the Twenty-First Century.

"The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving end of U.S. military force. At the center of her inquiries was a seeming paradox: How can the United States stay continually at war, yet Americans pay so little attention to this militarism? Making the Forever War brings Young's articles and essays on American war together for the first time, including never before published works. Moving from the first years of the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, and more recent "forever" wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Young reveals the ways in which war became ever-present, yet more covert and abstract, particularly as aerial bombings and faceless drone strikes have attained greater strategic value. For Young, U.S. empire persisted because of, not despite, the inattention of most Americans. The collection concludes with an afterword by prominent military historian Andrew Bacevich"--

Hentz, J. J.: Introduction: the obligation of empire. - S. 1-11 Bandow, D.: American strategy after 9/11. - S. 15-31 Kiracofe, C. A.: Selective engagement. - S. 33-52 Kupchan, C. A.: The end of American primacy and the return of a multipolar world. - S. 53-71 Donnelly, T.: What is within our powers? - S. 73-89 Hentz, J. J.: A tale of two countries. - S. 93-109 Starr, S. F.: Philosophical choices and U.S. policy toward Central Asia today. - S. 111-124 Stark, J.: Contours of a U.S. strategy toward Latin America and the Caribbean. - S. 125-150 Davis, D. R.: Crashing into reality. - S. 151-174 Womack, B.: Southeast Asia and American strategic options. - S. 175-195 Bacevich, A. J.: Conclusion: Reinhold Niebuhr and the hazards of empire. - S. 197-207

Finan, William W. ; Sorensen, Alan T.: Global progress report, 2006. - S. 403-404. - How is the world doing? - S. 404-410 Bacevich, Andrew J.: Requiem for the Bush doctrine. - S. 411-417 Ikenberry, G. John: The strange triumph of unilateralism. - S. 414-415 Kurlantzick, Joshua: The decline of American soft power. - S. 419-424 Johnston, Michael: Controlling global corruption: are we there yet? - S. 425-429 Laurenti, Jeffrey: Grand goals, modest results: the UN in search of reform. - S. 431-437 Daynes, Byron W. ; Sussman, Glen: The "greenless" response to global warming. - S. 438-443

SOME SEE U.S. MILITARY POWER AS THE ULTIMATE WORLD MANAGEMENT TOOL. THIS ARTICLE OFFERS A FOUR-POINT HYPOTHESIS: 1) THE WORLD ECONOMIC REVOLUTION IS A TRUE BIG CHANGE, WHAT OLD GERMAN PHILOSOPHERS WOULD CALL A PHENOMENON OF WORLD-HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE. 2) ECONOMIC REVOLUTION WILL BRING UPHEAVAL TO WORLD CULTURES AS OLD WAYS OF LIFE ARE TORN APART. 3) NEW WAR WILL SERVE THE NEEDS OF NEW MEANING. 4) THE UNITED STATES WILL NOT ONLY BE FIGHTING OLD WAR, BUT STILL BE THINKING OLD WAR. IT ARGUES THAT A CHALLENGE TO AMERICAN HEGEMONY WILL COME.