Overblown : How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (Paperback)

from jensenmk82

A useful volume, but one that leaves many obvious approaches untouched: 1) American militarism (imperialism is all but absent in the book, though it makes an oblique appearance in discussing a discussion of the effects of the Iraq war). Mueller appears to have isolationist and anti-imperial views...

from jensenmk82

A useful volume, but one that leaves many obvious approaches untouched: 1) American militarism (imperialism is all but absent in the book, though it makes an oblique appearance in discussing a discussion of the effects of the Iraq war). Mueller appears to have isolationist and anti-imperial views...

from ElectricRay

This is an interesting, valuable and important book, and I'm fairly sure almost no-one has or, for that matter will, read it. I will do what I can to change that. John Mueller is from a venerable but sadly rare tradition of Academic commentators: the skeptics. It's that perspective he lends to ou...

from ElectricRay

This is an interesting, valuable and important book, and I'm fairly sure almost no-one has or, for that matter will, read it. I will do what I can to change that. John Mueller is from a venerable but sadly rare tradition of Academic commentators: the skeptics. It's that perspective he lends to ou...