For many Americans, their last look at U.S. History was their junior year in high school. A Mighty Case Against War challenges America, and all people, to revisit the stories of how nations have dealt with conflict in order to see how our past informs our present and can mold our decisions for the future. A Mighty Case Against War begins with a startling account of America's wars, looks at why war sells, and exposes the fallacies of some of our most influential justifications for war. Beckwith does not side-step the tough questions: What about Hitler? And genocide? If not war, then what? Given military technology, the power to destroy is greater than at any time in human history. Beckwith proposes that our culturally supported, deeply entrenched system of governmental violence is simply too costly, destructive, counterproductive, and inhumane to leave unchallenged"--Back cover.