Sheldon Rothenberg’s Reviews > Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War > Status Update

I agree largely with the thoughts of a previous reader that Moyn presents a paradox: by trying to make war more “humane”, we may extend the duration of conflicts and thereby inflict more death and destruction.
The “war on terror” illustrates this dilemma. I only read a portion of the book but felt i u
This is not light reading but Moyn does a good job of describing historical events in warfare and the laws of war.