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Explore how World War II transformed the United States into a perpetual warfare state with this critical historical analysis from Routledge. Carl Boggs examines the broad ensemble of structures, policies, and ideologies that emerged in the post-war period, including the permanent war economy, national security apparatus, global military base expansion, merger of state and corporate power, the imperial presidency, nuclear establishment, and superpower ambitions. This book argues that the "Good War" paradoxically led to an authoritarian system that has continued to expand throughout the post-war decades, reshaping American politics fundamentally. A comprehensive exploration of how wartime mobilisation became institutionalised into permanent military and political structures that define modern American foreign policy and domestic governance.

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Carl Boggs analyses how World War II established the permanent war economy that underpins contemporary American military spending and policy.

The book examines the emergence of the national security-state and its expansion across post-war decades as a defining feature of American politics.

Origins of the Warfare State explores the global expansion of military bases and the merger of state, corporate, and military power structures.

Routledge's edition investigates how the imperial presidency and nuclear establishment became central to American superpower ambitions and geopolitical strategy.

This military history text traces how World War II's authoritarian wartime systems were institutionalised into permanent peacetime governance frameworks.

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14 September 2016
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