1st Edition

Limited War Revisited

By Robert E. Osgood Copyright 1979
    140 Pages
    by Routledge

    148 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book analyses the new challenges posed by changes in technology and the military balance that affect U.S. security. It presents a searching inquiry into the problems of limited war where its utility as an instrument of foreign policy is most in doubt: the Third World.

    Foreword -- Limited War in U.S. Foreign Policy -- Three Types of Limited-War Strategy -- The Lessons of Vietnam -- Post-Vietnam Refinements of Limited-War Strategy -- Limited-War Strategy in the Third World -- Containment Revisited

    Biography

    Robert E. Osgood