3rd Edition
From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond War and Politics in the American Experience
354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
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Decisions about when, where, and why to commit the United States to the use of force, and how to conduct warfare and ultimately end it, are hotly debated not only contemporaneously but also for decades afterward. We are engaged in such a debate today, quite often without a solid grounding in the country's experience of war, both political and military. This book, by a political scientist and a... Read more
List of Maps; Preface; Introduction; 1. War and Political Purpose; 2. American Revolution; 3. Civil War; 4. World War I; 5. World War II; 6. Korean War; 7. Vietnam War; 8. Persian Gulf War; 9. Afghanistan and the Post-9/11 Experience; 10. Iraq War; 11. America'S Minor Wars; War of 1812; Mexican War; Spanish-American War; 12. The American Experience.
Biography
Donald M Snow (University of Alabama, USA) (Author) , Dennis M. Drew (Author)
