Summary Of The American Empire By Andrew J. Bacevich

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Debra Rogers U.S. Diplomatic History Hist. 3306 CRN 21772 Dr. J. Parks The American Empire American Empire was written by Andrew J. Bacevich how seem to be an very intelligent book writer who attended and completed his schooling at West Point and late took interested in joining the United State army. Reading the book Bacevich talks about how he served in the Vietnam War, which at some point became very interesting to me. Bacevich gives me the impression that he is fully educated about the military. Bacevich starts off talking about how members were affect by breathing in harmful vapors that were release in 1989 during annus mirabilis, and that here was the twentieth century and there still was no peace and that he world should have peace …show more content…

Bacevich keeps his mind on the ending of the Cold War situation and how the fathers mainly envisioned the American Empire how foreign policy was pointed to the domestic goals and trying to achieve the American Empire. Globalization was one thing Bacevich studied that had a fall in the American hegemony; hegemony had been chosen by the soviet communism. Bacevich talks about how there are three no’s that shows that U.S. policy has no war, no power or no limits and goes on to break these three no’s down. Bacevich stress a lot about democratic capitalism in his book and he argues that the during the Cold War, the foreign policy has not changed because the American were not disagreeing with enemy, but just was trying to reach economic situation. The foreign policy people have been using the world …show more content…

and how we the people wanted the human rights violation to end. He also compared our foreign policy with the Clinton and Bush administrations, how they presented the policy to the people. Bacevich believes the really main point of the American military is to have order and have globalization. The U.S. wants to keep piece with china because it will certainly keep all our cheap products coming to the states. Bacevich believe this is one of the U.S. goals and we all want domestic prosperity at cheaper prices and this shows foreign policy as an extension of completing our goal. Bacevich tries to show and explains to his reader that the foreign policy hasn’t changed, it is still going same. American empire is a book that Bacevich argues about the power of globalized capitalism and also the ability of hegemonic of power of the” economic system”. Bacevich leaves his readers thinking a lot about the American foreign policy by showing the different things Clinton and Bush had in common and how 911 was consequence openness and that we the people need to help stop things like 911 from happen and work on getting the world on the same page so there is peace. He views the strategy that the American policy should have in this book. Bacevich use the term myth with explains the U.S. only believes certain things when it comes to the American