Thomas H. Henriksen (Revolution Hoover Institution on War and Peac

America's Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

The collapse of the Soviet Union inaugurated a period of unconstrained American military intervention. In America's Wars, Thomas Henriksen explores how in the post-Cold War period the United States intervened, fought insurgencies, and changed regimes in its quest to protect democracy, human rights, and America's interests.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781009055086
• ISBN-10: 1009055089
• Artikelnr.: 62390262

Autorenporträt

Thomas Henriksen is Senior Fellow Emeritus at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. His previous publications include Cycles in U.S. Foreign Policy since the Cold War (2018), America and the Rogue States (2012), and What Really Happened in Northern Ireland's Counterinsurgency (2008). During 1963-65 he was a US Army infantry officer and served on the President's Commission for White House Fellows, and U.S. Army Science Board.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. An end and a beginning: From cold war to Panama invasion for regime change
2. The Persian Gulf war and its aftermath
3. Wars other than war, wars in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo
4. Afghanistan: Regime change and building society in the graveyard of empires
5. The Iraq war: Changing a regime, building democracy, and fighting an insurgency
6. America's small-footprint wars: Asia, Africa, & the Middle East
7. America's larger forever wars - Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq
8. A conclusion: The new era.