Format:
XX, 428 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. paperback ed.
ISBN:
046500721X
Content:
A compellingly readable history of the forgotten wars of American history: the small conflicts that resulted from-and helped promote-America's rise to world power. Boot (editorial features editor, The Wall Street Journal) celebrates American interventionism and imperialism, arguing that the military strategies involved in small wars of imperialism have been constant in American history and have demonstrated substantial success in dominating less-developed countries. His narrative history documents wars with the Barbary nations shortly after the American Revolution, numerous invasions of Central American nations, and the expansion of empire into the Pacific and notes that many of these efforts consisted of "low-intensity" conflicts that dragged on for years. He argues that if the U.S. had maintained the same strategy for Vietnam, the nationalist insurgency might have been successfully suppressed.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Expansionspolitik
;
Militärische Intervention
;
Bewaffneter Konflikt
;
Großmachtpolitik
;
Lokaler Krieg
;
Regionalkonflikt
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Kleinkrieg
;
Militärische Macht
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