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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| Language: | English |
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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