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The mission : waging war and keeping peace with America's military / Dana Priest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Priest, Dana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Armed Forces.
- United States.
- Armed Forces.
- United States--Armed Forces--Foreign service.
- Diplomatic and consular service.
- World politics--21st century.
- World politics.
- Armed Forces--Foreign service.
- Physical Description:
- 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2004.
- Summary:
- An account of America's growing dependence on its military to manage world affairs describes the cultural clashes experienced by the nation's generals, soldiers, and Green Berets in eighteen different countries.
- Contents:
- A Different Kind of World
- The Rise of the American Military
- The Commanders
- The CinCs: Proconsuls to the Empire
- The Royal CinCdoms of the Persian Gulf
- The Invisible Front Line of Central Asia
- The Special Forces
- Inside the Wire with special forces
- A-Teams in Afghanistan
- Below the Radar in Nigeria
- Gambling with Green Berets in Colombia
- The Indonesian Handshake
- The Cinc and Soldiers in Kosovo
- Force Trumpts Diplomacy in the Balkans
- Waging Peace in Kosovo
- Drita's Kosovo
- Ellerbe's 82nd Airborne Division
- Vitina and the New Merita
- Vitina, One Year Later
- Afterword: The Mission
- Postscript: The New Idealism.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Norton, ©2003. With a new afterword on Iraq.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-418) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393325504
- 9780393325508
- OCLC:
- 53821191
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