Joy Rohde
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449673
- eISBN:
- 9780801469602
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449673.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This epilogue argues that militarization seems to offer many Americans a sense of security. The national security state's patronage has proven so beneficial, and the intellectual and technological ...
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This epilogue argues that militarization seems to offer many Americans a sense of security. The national security state's patronage has proven so beneficial, and the intellectual and technological manifestations of militarized knowledge are so flexible, that militarization remains difficult for Americans to contain or reverse. Moreover, Americans were reluctant to give up militarization in the years after Vietnam because they were devoted to their image of the nation as a global superpower. This suggests that militarization would last as long as Americans continued to measure their national greatness by their global might. Militarization will persist as long as Americans remain convinced that their investment in national security is both inflicted by external aggressors and part of a program of global uplift.Less
This epilogue argues that militarization seems to offer many Americans a sense of security. The national security state's patronage has proven so beneficial, and the intellectual and technological manifestations of militarized knowledge are so flexible, that militarization remains difficult for Americans to contain or reverse. Moreover, Americans were reluctant to give up militarization in the years after Vietnam because they were devoted to their image of the nation as a global superpower. This suggests that militarization would last as long as Americans continued to measure their national greatness by their global might. Militarization will persist as long as Americans remain convinced that their investment in national security is both inflicted by external aggressors and part of a program of global uplift.
