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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic ハードカバー – 2004/1/10

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From the author of the prophetic national bestseller Blowback, a startling look at militarism, American style, and its consequences abroad and at home

In the years after the Soviet Union imploded, the United States was described first as the globe’s “lone superpower,” then as a “reluctant sheriff,” next as the “indispensable nation,” and now, in the wake of 9/11, as a “New Rome.” Here, Chalmers Johnson thoroughly explores the new militarism that is transforming America and compelling its people to pick up the burden of empire.

Reminding us of the classic warnings against militarism—from George Washington’s farewell address to Dwight Eisenhower’s denunciation of the military-industrial complex—Johnson uncovers its roots deep in our past. Turning to the present, he maps America’s expanding empire of military bases and the vast web of services that supports them. He offers a vivid look at the new caste of professional warriors who have infiltrated multiple branches of government, who classify as “secret” everything they do, and for whom the manipulation of the military budget is of vital interest.

Among Johnson’s provocative conclusions is that American militarism is putting an end to the age of globalization and bankrupting the United States, even as it creates the conditions for a new century of virulent blowback.
The Sorrows of Empire suggests that the former American republic has already crossed its Rubicon—with the Pentagon leading the way.
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Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

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As of September 2001, the Department of Defense acknowledged that at least 725 military bases exist outside the United States. Actually, there are many more, since some bases exist under informal agreements or disguises of various kinds. And others have been created in the years since. This military empire ranges from al-Udeid air base in the desert of Qatar, where several thousand troops live in air-conditioned tents, to expensive, permanent garrisons built in such unlikely places as southeastern Kosovo,

Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Much like the British bases in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Srinagar—those north Indian hill stations used for the troops’ rest and recreation in the summer heat—U.S. armed forces operate a ski and vacation center at Garmish in the Bavarian Alps, a resort hotel in downtown Seoul, and 234 military golf courses worldwide. Seventy-one Learjets, thirteen Gulfstream IIIs, and seventeen Cessna Citation luxury jets are ready and waiting when U.S. admirals and generals come due for some R&R.

(Continues...)Excerpted from The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson. Copyright © 2004 by Chalmers Johnson. Excerpted by permission of Henry Holt and Co..
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Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times and The Nation. His previous books include MITI and the Japanese Miracle. He lives in Southern California.


Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.

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  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ Metropolitan Books (2004/1/10)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2004/1/10
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ハードカバー ‏ : ‎ 389ページ
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0805070044
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805070040
  • 寸法 ‏ : ‎ 15.88 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm
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筆者のチャルマーズ・ジョンソンは、著書『通産省と日本の奇跡』で日本であまりにも有名な政治学者だったが、実は米国でも知名度が結構高く、上記の本は日本に関係ない政治学の授業でも扱われている。

私は知らなかったのだが、ジョンソンは上記の本の出版以降、めぼしい実績を残しておらず、晩年はブッシュ政権と「米国帝国主義」の批判についての本をいくつか書いており、本書はその一つである。率直に言って、あの当時世にあふれた「ブッシュ批判本」と大した変わりない陳腐な内容と言わざるを得ない。政治学者らしく、「軍国主義」の概念を丁寧に説明し、様々なデータや引用を用いている。特に米軍についてのデータは詳細で、個人的には勉強になったところもある。ただ、概念やデータの現実への当てはめがやや強引で、例えば「軍国主義」の概念を現代のアメリカに当てはめようとするのにはかなり違和感があった。

ジョンソンは何もブッシュのみを批判しているのではなく、近代以降の米国の対外政策の歴史そのものをも批判している。明治から終戦に至る日本の対外史を批判する日本の左翼のような人が米国にもいるのだと、変な感慨が湧いた。大御所が晩年にこのように変わり果ててしまったのは残念だ。

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Excellent read...
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Superb book - everyone should read it ... or better yet ...."Némésis".
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Sorrows of Empire a thought provoking book and a counterpoint to the Friedman's The World is Flat, and Barnett's The Pentagon's New Map (both excellent books also).

Johnson suggests that US militarism and imperialism (e.g. military bases

throughout the world) will lead to 4 sorrows:

1) perpetual war - leading to more terrorism against Americans wherever

they may be an a growing reliance on WMD among smaller nations as they try

to object to US imperialism

2) Loss of democracy and constitutional rights as the presidency

skirts Congress and as both are influenced by the Pentagon

3) Truthfulness will increasingly be replaced by a system of propaganda,

disinformation, and glorification of war, power, and the military.

4) Bankruptcy, as we pour our economic resources into every more grandiose

military projects and divert capital from the free market, and shortchange

education, health and safety.

Johnson states that American triumphalists, including Robert Gates, convinced the US public that the demise of the USSR was a great American victory, but the actual collapse of the USSR into the CIS was due to economics (Freidman and Barnett make that same point). The Pentagon, rather than restructuring and demobilizing after their major Cold War enemy folded, has looked for other areas to justify its budgets (e.g. B2 bomber, the Joint Strike Fighter, and nuclear programs). The Pentagon is now involved in the war on drugs, the war on terror, and overt and covert preventive interventions throughout the world. In a change that has nearly been unnoticed, US foreign policy has shifted from civilian control to military policy control, and now the US is acting as a law unto itself, withdrawing from treaties and disparaging international cooperation.

This book was published in 2004, well before the current situation due to the Iraqi war venture could have been predicted, and Johnson's predictions are prescient: he describes the worst case for Iraq as sectarian violence and civil strife.

Johnson makes the case that a revolution in US relations with the 'rest of the world' occurred between 1989 (the fall of the Berlin wall) and 2002. Foreign policy gave way to military expansionism: permanent bases and airfields, espionage listening posts, and strategic enclaves on every continent. This is militarism - because US national security does not depend on this expansion. He states the armed services have put their institutional preservation ahead of national security, and in the first chapter he draws historical parallels with the Roman empire, which fell to barbarians because it couldn't afford to sustain its far-flung outposts.

Johnson states the 4th Amendment should protect the US citizens' right to privacy and prevent unreasonable searches, but that is not the case. He argues the government has systematically been violating our privacy - and this was before the controversy of the Foreign Intel Surveillance Court broke in 2005, before Gen Hayden was appointed to the NSA.

Johnson quotes Jefferson, "that when the government fears the people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny."

The SoE describes that militarism, going beyond what is needed for national security, damages globalism and international relationships by taking capital resources from the free market forces, reallocating money, talent, and resources to the military which is not responsive to real forces of supply and demand, and which is responsive to crony capitalism and false claims of effectiveness.

Some of Johnson's assertions bear further explanation: e.g. on pg. 287, he cites Immanuel Wallerstein's `world systems theory', but this concept is not described. On pg. 70, he asserts that "Most neocons have their roots on the left, not on the right." I would have liked further explanation of this. Johnson, like Chomsky, is very critical of both Democrats and Republicans - he is describing the systemic forces, larger than politics, that are shaping the future of the US. Certainly many of his assessments are opinions which are quite controversial, but these opinions deserve consideration.
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well researched, fascinating read
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