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Humane

How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
  • Samuel Moyn
2021
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  • US military pilots operating Predator drones from the ground control station.
    Book Review

    The Forgotten Crime of War Itself

    A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.
    by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on March 31, 2022
  • Cover of Moyne's book, with the subtitle "How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War," in front of a desert landscape.
    Book Review

    Not Humane, Just Invisible

    A counter-narrative to Samuel Moyn’s "Humane": drone warfare and the long history of liberal empire blurring the line between policing and endless war.
    by Priya Satia via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 3, 2021
  • A drone flying low
    Book Review

    Slouching Toward Humanity

    Historian Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.
    by Anthony Dworkin via Boston Review on September 16, 2021
  • The First Hague Conference in 1899: A meeting in the Orange Hall of Huis ten Bosch palace – collections of the Imperial War Museums.
    Book Review

    Oh, the Humanity

    Yale's John Fabian Witt pens a review of Samuel Moyn's new book, Humane.
    by John Fabian Witt via Just Security on September 8, 2021
  • Book Review

    The Case Against Humane War

    How the turn toward “precision” combat promoted endless war.
    by Daniel Bessner via The New Republic on September 8, 2021
  • Plane with an eye in it and a bird's silhouette around.
    Book Review

    Did Making the Rules of War Better Make the World Worse?

    Why efforts to curb the cruelty of military force may have backfired.
    by Dexter Filkins via The New Yorker on September 2, 2021
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