How wars are won and lost [ vulnerability and military power

Military power is a key component of state power. Yet for all the attention statesmen, soldiers, and scholars give to military power, it remains a loose concept. A considerable academic effort has catalogued characteristics of great power wars. Scholars know much about individual wars, and they unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gentry, John A. , 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger , c2012
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2. The Philippine war of 1899-1902
  • 3. The Allied bomber offensive against Germany (1943-1945)
  • 4. The United States in Vietnam (1961-1975)
  • 5. NATO's war against Yugoslavia (1999)
  • 6. The U.S. war in Iraq (2003-2011)
  • 7. The U.S. war in Afghanistan (2001-?)
  • 8. Summary and conclusions