Russell Crandall

America's Dirty Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Irregular Warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in dirty wars is that failure is painfully tangible while success is often amorphous. Successfully fighting these wars often entails striking a critical balance between military victory and politics. America's status as a democracy only serves to make fighting - and, to a greater degree, winning - these irregular wars even harder. Rather than futilely insisting that Americans should not or cannot fight this kind of irregular war, Russell Crandall argues that we would be better served by considering how we can do so as cleanly and effectively as possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139904131
• Artikelnr.: 52942558

Autorenporträt

Russell Crandall is a Professor of International Politics and American Foreign Policy at Davidson College. His previous books include The United States and Latin America after the Cold War (Cambridge, 2008); Gunboat Democracy: US Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama (2006); and Driven by Drugs: US Policy Toward Colombia (2008). Interwoven with his academic career, Crandall has held high-level foreign policy appointments within several sectors of the US government, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon and the National Security Council at the White House.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Irregular warfare 101
Part I. The American Revolution to Chasing Sandino, 1776-1930s: 3. The American Revolution
4. Confederates and Indians
5. Intermezzo: the Boer War
6. America, Aguinaldo, and the Philippines, 1898
7. Chasing Villa, 1916
8. A cold winter in Siberia
9. The Banana Wars, 1898-1930s
10. Intermezzo: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, 1916-18
11. Chasing Sandino, 1927-32
Part II. The Cold War, 1940s-1989: 12. Cold War counterinsurgencies
13. Intermezzo: Mao Zedong
14. Fighting communism in Greece
15. Intermezzo: France in Algeria, 1954-62
16. Intermezzo: David Galula
17. Intermezzo: Malaya emergency, 1948-60
18. Ramón Magsaysay and the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the Philippines, 1946-56
19. Vietnam
Part III. Latin America and the Cold War, 1950s-1980s: 20. From Guatemala, 1954, to Cuba and the Bay of Pigs, 1961
21. Guatemala, post-1963
22. Cuba, post-1963
23. Intermezzo: Che Guevara and guerrilla warfare
24. Carter, Reagan, and the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, 1979-90
25. El Salvador, 1979-92
Part IV. Post-Cold War, 1990s-2000s: 26. Dirty wars after the Cold War
27. Colombia
28. Iraq
29. Intermezzo: the counterinsurgency field manual and postmodern insurgencies
30. Post-9/11 COIN in the Philippines
31. Intermezzo: Afghanistan, graveyard of empires
32. The longest war: America in Afghanistan
33. The fall of Muammar Qaddafi, 2011
34. Intermezzo: JSOC raids and drone strikes
35. Conclusion.