The American way of strategy / Michael Lind.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lind, Michael, 1962- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategy--History.

Strategy.

National characteristics, American.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

United States--Military policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracing the history of American foreign policy, this book argues that successive US leaders have understood that the purpose of grand strategy is to ensure not only the physical defence of the people and territory of the US but also the defence of a distinct American way of life.

Contents:

Defending the American way of life

The American way of strategy

Independence, unity, and the American way of life

Averting a balance of power in North America : power politics and American expansion

Why the United States fought in World War I

World War II and the American way of life

The Cold War

The cold peace

U.S. hegemony and the American way of life

A concert of power

American strategy in the Asian century

The American way of military strategy

The American way of trade

The world order which we seek.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-283) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773282-8

0-19-988579-6

1-280-84669-0

0-19-804214-0

1-4294-3867-3

OCLC:

609831787