# The New American Militarism Subtitle: *How Americans Are Seduced by War*. [[Andrew Bacevich]]'s signature book and the origin of this vault's working definition of [[Militarism]]: the argument that American militarism is a **civilian** romance with military power rather than a military seizure of civilian authority. Bacevich traces four converging post-Vietnam streams — an insulated professional officer corps, neoconservative intellectuals in search of a usable American mission, an evangelical culture that recast the soldier as moral exemplar, and a popular culture that aestheticized weaponry. A revised edition appeared in 2013. ## See Also - [[Andrew Bacevich]] — the author - [[Militarism]] · [[Forever Wars]] · [[Military-Industrial Complex]] [[Works Hub]]