Small wars : low-intensity threats and the American response since Vietnam / Michael D. Gambone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gambone, Michael D., 1963-

Series:

Legacies of war

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)--History.

Low-intensity conflicts (Military science).

Intervention (International law)--Government policy.

Intervention (International law).

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

First ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Small Wars is unique in its complexity and breadth. This book would be of great interest to both military and diplomatic historians, and those that teach Recent America." -Nancy Gentile Ford, author of Issues of War and PeaceToday, conventional fighting waged by massed, industrial armies is nearly extinct as a viable means of warfare, replaced by a broad and diverse array of conflicts that consume the modern American military. Fought in sprawling urban areas of the underdeveloped world or in desolate border regions where ethnicity and tradition reign, these "small wars" involve a

Contents:

The Cold War and limited conflict

The seventies nadir and recovery

Low-intensity war in the eighties

The first Gulf War and the new world order

"Peace," nation building, and the new world disorder

The drug war

The War on Terror

Iraq and Afghanistan

Private military corporations in the new century

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781572339712

1572339713

9781283864800

1283864800

9781572339231

1572339233

OCLC:

824081558