The Welfare and Warfare State

ISSP Director Chris Coyne reviews Andrew Preston’s Total Defense, which traces the US national security state back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs rather than WWII and the Cold War. By reconsidering ‘the warfare state’ as inseparably connected to ‘the welfare state’ in its origins and purposes, Total Defense explores important questions about top-down government policies and what ultimately constitutes national security.

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