David Fitzgerald (University College Cork)

Uncertain Warriors

The United States Army between the Cold War and the War on Terror

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how the US Army â disoriented by the end of the Cold War and struggling to appease domestic culture wars â spent the 1990s suffering from an identity crisis. This unique work will interest students and scholars of contemporary American military history.

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Produktdetails

• Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 238mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781009235808
• ISBN-10: 100923580X
• Artikelnr.: 68053704

Autorenporträt

David Fitzgerald is Lecturer in International Relations at University College Cork. His first book, Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq (2013), was a finalist for the Society of Military History's Edward M. Coffman prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Warriors at the End of History
1. The Post-Vietnam Recovery, Operation Desert Storm, and the Veneration of the Volunteer Soldier
2. Gender, Sexuality, and the Profession of Arms: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Women in Combat and the 'Band of Brothers'
3. Warriors Who Don't Fight: The Dilemmas of Peacekeeping Operations
4. Downsizing, Recruiting and the Debates over Military Service
5. Technological Transformation and the American Soldier
6. The Warrior Ethos
Epilogue.