Review of Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021).  In this extraordinary book, Yale University historian Samuel Moyn examines how the U.S. military’s effort to make war more “humane” by limiting civilian casualties has served to make American wars seemingly endless.  The American use of …