Dominic Tierney

How We Fight

Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tierney, the author of "Failing to Win," takes readers on a lively tour through history and and the present day to to show how Americans respond to and think about war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 159mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780316045155
• ISBN-10: 0316045152
• Artikelnr.: 29928728

Autorenporträt

Dominic Tierney is an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford University. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a former visiting associate professor at Princeton University, a former research fellow at Harvard University, and the author of three books, including How We Fight and Failing to Win, which won the International Studies Association "Best Book of the Year" Award and was nominated for its "Best Book of the Decade" Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1  Introduction
Chapter 2  For Liberty and Vengeance: The Crusade Tradition
Chapter 3  Through a Glass, Darkly: The Quagmire Tradition
Chapter 4  Birth of a Nation
Chapter 5  Heel of Achilles
Chapter 6  To End All War
Chapter 7  When the Saints Go Marching In
Chapter 8  Black Gold and Black Hawks
Chapter 9  The Bush Warriors
Chapter 10  The Founding Tradition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index