Wars of revelation : the transformative effects of military intervention on grand strategy / Rebecca Lissner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lissner, Rebecca, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intervention (International law)--Case studies.

Intervention (International law).

United States--Military policy--Case studies.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-1993.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

As American foreign policy experts anticipate a new Cold War with China, there is no better time to reflect on the evolution of the United States' grand strategy during its decades-long contest with Russia. Lissner shows that military interventions in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq were crucibles for American foreign policy in the latter half of the 20th century, testing strategic axioms on the battlefield and compelling adjustments to Washington's conception of its global role. In each case, these wars of revelation provided searing insights into the capabilities and intentions of America's most dangerous international adversaries - as well as the potential and limits of its own national power.

Contents:

cover

Wars of Revelation

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Transformative Effects of Military Intervention on Grand Strategy

2. "An Entirely New War": The Korean War and the Realization of Containment

3. "A Transformation in the Nature of Power": Finding the Limits of Containment in Vietnam

4. "Beyond Containment": The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Grand Strategy at the Dawn of the New World Order

5. War and Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-758321-0

0-19-758322-9

0-19-758320-2