At War offers essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media.  

Introduction: War, the military, and American culture / David Kieran and Edwin A. Martini
War and justice / Sahr Conway-Lanz
American empire / Stefan Aune
Domestic politics and antiwar activism / Nick Witham
The military-industrial complex / Mark R. Wilson
Military demographics / Jennifer Mittelstadt
Combat / Christopher Hamner
Veterans and veterans' issues / Wilbur J. Scott
War, persecution, and displacement: U.S. refugee policy since 1945 / Jana K. Lipman
Race and/in war / Christine Knauer
Gender, the military, and war / Kara Dixon Vuic
The embodiment of war: bodies for, in, and after war / John M. Kinder
War and the environment / Richard P. Tucker
Communications media, the U.S. military, and the war brought home / Susan L. Carruthers
War in visual culture / Bonnie M. Miller
War and film / Scott Laderman
War and memory / G. Kurt Piehler
Timeline: Major events in U.S. military history, 1890-2017 / Katherine Ellison and William Watson