How War Leads to Big Government

Further reading:

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government by Robert Higgs

Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society by Robert Higgs

Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs

Neither Liberty nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government by Robert Higgs

Delusions of Power: New Explorations of the State, War, and Economy by Robert Higgs

Further reading on the libertarian view of war:

War, Peace, and the State by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 5 in Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays)

The Costs of War by John V. Denson

Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal by Ralph Raico

A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt by John V. Denson

Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism edited by Robert Higgs & Carl P. Close

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism by Scott Horton

Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism by Jeff Riggenbach

World War I: A Revisionist Reading List by David Gordon

World War II: A Revisionist Reading List by David Gordon