Perspectives on the American Way of War (eBook, ePUB)

The U.S. Experience in Irregular Conflict
Redaktion: Marks, Thomas A.; Bateman, Kirklin J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the post-World War II era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000713046
• Artikelnr.: 59743168

Autorenporträt

Thomas A. Marks is Distinguished Professor and MG Edward Lansdale Chair of Irregular Warfighting Strategy at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) of the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC. He assumed this position after 12 years as Chair of the War and Conflict Studies (WACS) Department at CISA. Kirklin J. Bateman is Chair of the War and Conflict Studies (WACS) Department at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) of the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington, DC. He assumed this position after previously serving as CISA Associate Dean of Curriculum Development.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Perspectives on the American way of war: the U.S. experience
in irregular conflict Thomas A. Marks and Kirklin J. Bateman 1. The Mexican
War: frontier expansion and selective incursion Craig A. Deare 2. Birth of
the Cold War: irregular warfare first blood in Greece Andrew Novo 3.
Organizing for the 'gray zone' fight: early Cold War realities and the
CIA's Directorate of Operations David P. Oakley 4. Counterinsurgency in
Vietnam - schizophrenia until too late Rufus Phillips 5. Turning gangsters
into allies: the American way of war in Northern Afghanistan Matthew P.
Dearing 6. Iraq, 2003-2011: succeeding to fail Jeanne Godfroy and Liam
Collins 7. The American way of war in Africa: the case of Niger LTC Joseph
Guido 8. Too little, too late: protecting American soft networks in COIN/CT
Steve Miska and Samuel Romano 9. Systems failure: the US way of irregular
warfare David H. Ucko