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1 online resource (152 pages)
ISBN:
9781442219908
Inhalt:
This fascinating history explores one of America's earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere. Few remember that shortly before the end of World War I, the United States sent thousands of troops to Siberia, who remained there for a year and a half to suppress the Bolshevik Revolution. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that the intervention ironically enabled the survival of the emerging Soviet regime and influenced subsequent Soviet-American relations. The episode also teaches valuable lessons about the extreme difficulties inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns and about the absolute need to secure widespread support on the ground if such campaigns are to achieve success, knowledge that U.S. policymakers tragically ignored in Vietnam, and later struggled to implement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The War to End All Wars -- Chapter 2: The Shadow of a Plan -- Chapter 3: Walking on Eggs Loaded with Dynamite -- Chapter 4: To Make the World Safe for Democracy -- Chapter 5: In Search of a Russian Policy -- Chapter 6: Hard Times, Come Again No More -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Author.
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ISBN 9781442219892
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442219892
Sprache:
Englisch
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1076211
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