Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say I am strong.-Joel 3:10 Beating Plowshares into Swords inaugurates an extraordinarily ambitious effort by Paul Koistinen to compose a comprehensive and wide-ranging study on the economics of American warfare from the colonial period to the present. When completed, this multi-volume project will stand as the definitive work on a complex subject that until now has been superficially treated or completely ignored. Koistinen focuses not upon battlefields and battles but upon the means used to make...
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say I am strong.-Joel 3:10 Beating Plowshares into Swords...
Although the military-industrial complex became familiar to most Americans during the Cold War, Paul Koistinen shows that its origins actually go back to the dawn of this century. Mobilizing for Modern War, the second of an extraordinary five-volume study on the political economy of American warfare, highlights the emergence of this pivotal relationship. In this volume, Koistinen examines war planning and mobilizing in an era of rapid industrialization and reveals how economic mobilization for defense and war is shaped at the national level by the interaction of political, economic,...
Although the military-industrial complex became familiar to most Americans during the Cold War, Paul Koistinen shows that its origins actually go back...
