ABSTRACT
The association of war and the growth of government in the modern era is a commonplace. Randolph Bourne's observation that "war is the health of the state" has become a cliché. Having extensively surveyed the fatal linkage, Bruce Porter concludes that "a government at war is a juggernaut of centralization determined to crush any internal opposition that impedes the mobilization of militarily vital resources. During the Cold War the government's operatives committed crimes against the American people too numerous to catalog, ranging from surveillance of millions of innocent citizens and mass arrests of political protesters to harassment and even murder of persons considered especially threatening. So far as the relation between war and the development of America's Leviathan is concerned, the deed had largely been done even before the outbreak of the Korean War.
