World War III has yet to happen, and yet material evidence of this
conflict is strewn everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean,
rusting in deserts, and floating in near-Earth orbit. In Military
Waste, Joshua O. Reno offers a unique analysis of the costs of
American war preparation through an examination of the lives and
stories of American civilians confronted with what is left over and
cast aside when a society is permanently ready for war. Using
ethnographic and archival research, Reno demonstrates how obsolete
military junk in its various incarnations affects people and places
far from the battlegrounds that are ordinarily associated with
warfare. Using a broad swath of examples-from excess planes, ships,
and space debris that fall into civilian hands, to the dispossessed
and polluted island territories once occupied by military bases, to
the militarized masculinities of mass shooters-Military Waste
reveals the unexpected and open-ended relationships that
non-combatants on the home front form with a nation permanently
ready for war.
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