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

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"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 Peace Today, conventional fighting waged by massed, industrial armies...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gambone, Michael D., 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville, TN : University of Tennessee Press, ©2012.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Legacies of war.
Subjects:
Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) > History.
Intervention (International law) > Government policy > United States.
Military history, Modern > 20th century.
Military history, Modern > 21st century.
United States > Military policy > History > 21st century.
United States > Military policy > History > 20th century.
Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
Military history, Modern
Military policy
United States
1900-2099
History
Table of 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.

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