Bernard Wishy Bücher

War, the American Way studies the common patterns in how America thinks of and conducts its wars. After a general view of "the Morphology of War," the book analyzes the recurring themes in most American wars, from, among others, with the Native Americans, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The recurring theme is how America seems capable of fighting only holy wars for universal principles of American democracy and, recently, aiming at "nation-building" to "make the world safe for democracy."