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View Cover. Login or Register. E-mail this page Embed book widget. What is an eBook? Why is an eBook better than a PDF? They fight over a byinch map of the United States divided into about 50 territories, with 30 major cities.
The invaders must capture 18 cities by Turn 10 to win. At first glance, all seems lost for the plucky Wolverines. The Americans are outnumbered 3-to They are being attacked from east, west, and south the Canadians presumably have declared neutrality.
Is Patrick Swayze doomed to speak Spanish while eating borscht with chopsticks? Will he wait in line for socialized health care? Fear not, my good Americans. You have some significant advantages. The enemy outnumbers you, but shipping capacity means that they can only bring in eight of their 60 pieces each turn, so their buildup consumes precious time.
An additional need for speed is the laser beams frying invader backsides; each turn, the Americans get to place a new laser tower in a city, with each laser having a chance of destroying an enemy unit.
But the real American ace in the hole is the event cards. Every turn, the U. Avenge me! There is something inherently compelling about the strategic situation, a kung-fu movie kind of war where the hero must fight three enemies simultaneously.
The game essentially breaks down into three conflicts. The East is where the bulk of the American cities are, and they are close to the Euro-Socialist Pact invasion beaches. The result is a brutal slugfest in which the bulk of the American army must stand and die. The West is the opposite. Recounting a now-common narrative of the conservative backlash among white men against the advances of civil and political rights for African Americans, May repurposes it to explain how these resentments were mobilized in the tracks created by Cold War fears.
Political leaders cannily adapted the bunker mentality of the Cold War to white male anxieties of the sixties. May describes how political advertising and media coverage replayed Cold War scripts, substituting crime and race for communism.
Just as fighting communism required military build-up and rooting out subversives, fighting criminal disorder required police build-up and citizen vigilance. Law-and-order politics, with their template from the early Cold War, would shape national sentiments and policies up through the s, May argues.
Just as the Cold War culture of fear dragooned Americans into privatized regimes of self-protection, so too did the fear of crime. While the government might not have been able to protect Americans from the fallout of a hydrogen bomb, it could reasonably be expected to protect citizens from crime and punish criminals. And indeed, May documents how as a result of the bunker mentality, the government in fact created vast new policing programs, draconian sentencing policies, increased spending, and new prison construction.
Here May quickly recounts what many recent historians have detailed—the rise of the war on drugs and crimes and the increasing police and carceral capacity of the state. Realistic evaluation of threat, May reminds readers repeatedly, was one of the casualties of the securitization of the United States. The Cold War culture of fear produced not only a robust police and carceral state but also new modes and technologies of self-protection.
Chapters 3, 4, and 5 delve into three distinct ways that the bunker mentality played out in the lives of individual Americans from the s through the s.
Male vigilantism thrived in the privatized culture created by the Cold War. Just as Americans of the s had to learn how to recognize and root out communists to protect themselves and their communities, they needed to be able to protect themselves and others from crime when necessary. The very government that was spending billions on policing and prisons was portrayed in films and by politicians as feckless.
Gun manufacturers and their advocates capitalized on the burgeoning culture of male vigilantism to rake in profits. Citizens armed themselves and favored policies that fueled mass incarceration and scapegoating immigrants.
May's masterful synthesis of cultural history makes Fortress America a compelling read. Dudziak, author of War Time. Related Reads.
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