Klare, Michael T. War Without End: American Planning for the Next Vietnams.
New York: Vintage Books, 1972. 464 pages.
Michael Klare is perhaps the only anti-Vietnam War activist who made
a career out of researching the U.S. defense establishment. He began with
the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) in the late sixties;
we still recommend their 69-page Research Methodology Guide (1970). Ten
years later Klare was doing most of his work as a fellow at the Institute
for Policy Studies. Even some among the ruling class like his work: he has
been on the staff of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and
in 1985 received a three-year Ford Foundation grant to direct the Five
College Program in Peace and World Security Studies based at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He also writes for Nation magazine.
"War Without End" is a detailed look at the current state of military
planning, from counterinsurgency and social science engineering, to rapid
deployment, the electronic battlefield, mercenaries, and foreign police
assistance. This book was written three years before the collapse of Saigon,
when critics expected that U.S. warmongers would be able to sustain their
efforts indefinitely. Twenty years and one Ronald Reagan later, it's clear
that we have neither the moral conviction nor the economic resources to pull
it off -- at least not until the New World Order gets its act together.
Nevertheless, the book remains valuable as a slice of imperial history.
ISBN 0-394-71764-3
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