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Over recent years, John W. Dower, one of America's preeminent historians, has dealt with the root base and implications of warfare from multiple perspectives. In Warfare Without Mercy, success of the National Book Critics Group Award, he detailed and analyzed the brutality that went to World Warfare II in the Pacific, as seen from both Japanese and the American edges. Embracing Defeat, success of the Pulitzer Reward and the National Book Award, dealt with Japan's struggle to start over in a shattered land in the immediate aftermath of the Pacific Warfare, when the defeated country was occupied by the U.S.-led Allied forces. Turning to a straight much larger canvas, Dower now examines the civilizations of war disclosed by four powerful incidents: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq in the name of a warfare on terror. The set of issues evaluated and styles explored is wide-ranging: failures of intellect 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 amazing reasoning - and allure - of mass devastation. Dower's new work also models the U.S. occupations of Japan and Iraq hand and hand in strikingly original ways. One of the main books of this decade, Civilizations of Warfare offers comparative insights into specific and institutional tendencies and pathologies that transcend "cultures" in the more traditional sense and this ultimately exceed war-making alone.
