War over Kosovo : politics and strategy in a global age / Andrew J. Bacevich and Eliot A. Cohen, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bacevich, Andrew J.

Cohen, Eliot A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kosovo War, 1998-1999.

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 223 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2005.

Summary:

While many analysts view the war for Kosovo as a one-sided affair of passing importance, this volume insists otherwise. To a greater extent than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the war in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American ""way of war."" In so doing, the conflict also brought into sharp focus the dilemmas -- military, political, and moral -- confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Andrew J. Bacevich and Eliot A. Cohen; Contributors; 1. Operation Allied Force: "The Most Precise Application of Air Power in History"; 2. Kosovo and the New American Way of War; 3. First War of the Global Era: Kosovo and U.S. Grand Strategy; 4. Hubris and Nemesis: Kosovo and the Pattern of Western Military Ascendancy and Defeat; 5. Kosovo and the Moral Burdens of Power; 6. Neglected Trinity: Kosovo and the Crisis in U.S. Civil-Military Relations; 7. Revolution Deferred: Kosovo and the Transformation of War; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

826476434