Informative and thorough ... Militarization and the American Century is an instructive and comprehensive book, a fine piece of scholarship that will inform and provoke.

H-Net

As David Fitzgerald shows in this intelligent, humane, and elegantly written book, since World War II the military has defined modern American society as much as anything else. Building on the recent scholarship on militarization, Fitzgerald reveals the fascinating extent to which the United States has been shaped by war.

Andrew Preston, Cambridge University, UK

Fitzgerald's book offers a persuasive account of how American militarization accelerated in the context of Cold War competition, rather than grounding it in the Second World War moment.

International Affairs

This innovative examination of everything from social welfare policies to base politics and the southern border reveals both the centrality of militarization to American domestic politics and foreign relations and its increasing invisibility. An important work for those interested in how militarism took hold and whether its tentacles can be disentangled.

Kara Dixon Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America, Texas Christian University, USA