Claude C. Sturgill

Low-Intensity Conflict in American History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is both a practical guide and an introduction to low-intensity conflict. In addition, it serves as a history of this type of conflict in the United States. A part of normal government operations in the U.S. from 1940 to the present, low-intensity conflict's antecedants can be traced back to the beginning of the republic. Sturgill discusses topics such as: insurgency and counterinsurgency, terrorism and counterterrorism, and military intervention.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780275939878
• ISBN-10: 0275939871
• Artikelnr.: 25564713

Autorenporträt

CLAUDE C. STURGILL is Professor of Military History at the University of Florida. He has written a number of books and many journal articles in both French and English.

Inhaltsangabe

Low-Intensity Conflict as a Part of Normal Government Operations,
1940-Present Several Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Operations Terrorism
and Counterterrorism Some Military Interventions by U.S. Armed Forces More
Recent U.S. Peacekeeping Operations Within Our Definition of Low-Intensity
Conflict Psychological Operations as a Special Facet of Low-Intensity
Conflict The Media in and Around Low-Intensity Conflict From the Rangers
Through the Green Berets to the Delta Force and Beyond to What? In Harm's
Way! Low-Intensity Conflicts in Our Future Bibliography Index