Was War Necessary?: National Security and U.S. Entry into War (SAGE Library of Social Research)

A diplomatic historian examines six major international wars involving the United States and concludes that American involvement was unjustified in each case. America′s national security was not in fact sufficiently threatened to merit a call to arms. The author analyzes the events leading up to each war and the justification of wars in general. His book combines lively history with lucid and relevant general argument.

`...the book is provocative and unquestionably will serve once more to bring the important question Was War Necessary before the public.′ -- Journal of the Early Republic, April 1982

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