America's Forgotten Wars
The Counterrevolutionary Past and Lessons for the Future
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 1984
280 pages
978-0-313-38828-6 (ISBN)
Description
"[This book provides] numerous brilliant and sound insights into the nature of low-level conflict. Sarkesian also perceptively describes the imperatives of the military mind set and armed forces structure necessary to help the US government achieve its national objectives in a turbulent world. Despite shortcomings, the book is a good and necessary work for those who want to know about the type of warfare that will engage our military forces for the rest of this century and beyond. Community college and above."-Choice
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-313-38828-6 (9780313388286)
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10/1984
Praeger Publishers Inc
€100.70
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Person
SAM C. SARKESIAN is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of The New Battlefield: The United States and Unconventional Conflicts (Greenwood Press, 1986) and co-author (with Robert A. Vitas) of U.S. National Security Policy and Strategy: Documents and Policy Proposals (Greenwood Press, 1989).
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- ACCKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. The Study of American Counterrevolutionary Policy
- 2. State of the Nation
- The Jacksonian Era and the End of Revolutionary America
- The Spanish-American War and the Beginnings of Empire
- The Wilsonian Period: Idealism and Reality
- Vietnam: The Moral Crusade
- Conclusions
- 3. Military Posture
- America's Military Establishment: The Beginnings
- An Army for Empire
- Prelude to the Great War and Its Aftermath
- The Wrong War
- Conclusions
- 4. Nature of the Conflict
- Conquest and Consolidation
- Manifest Destiny and the Civilizing Mission
- Bandit Chasing
- The Lost Crusade
- Conclusions
- 5. Conclusions and Guidelines for American Policy
- Postscript: A Personal View
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Z
