Book Description
Chronicles the lives and dubious accomplishments of over 200 leading and lesser-known enemies--those who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces.
Author : John C. Fredriksen
Publisher :
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Enemies
ISBN : 9789791576079
Chronicles the lives and dubious accomplishments of over 200 leading and lesser-known enemies--those who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces.
Author : Mark A. Stoler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0807862304
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy.
Author : Ted Galen Carpenter
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780932790958
Author : Michael Balfour
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000805026
The Adversaries (1981) examines the post-war world that both the US and the Soviet Union tried to mould in their own images. Their faith in their respective systems came at the cost of a political, economic and military clashing in various parts of the world, an antagonism that rendered the United Nations ineffective as an organ of world government. This book analyses these clashes, as the foreign policy decisions of both superpowers had wide-ranging effects over large portions of the globe.
Author : John C. Fredriksen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2001-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1576076040
This work chronicles the lives and accomplishments of over 200 enemies who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces over the past three centuries. Books on American military heroes abound. But this book is the first to focus on America's talented enemies—the generals, admirals, Indian chiefs and warriors, submarine captains, fighter pilots, and spies who opposed the United States with military force or other means. Often these military leaders were among the best minds of their times. For more than two centuries, the new nation's most constant military opponents were the Native Americans, led by such capable chiefs as American Horse and Little Wolf. Under D'Iberville, Canada's French colonialists became formidable foes, but they were soon surpassed by the rigorously disciplined redcoats of Great Britain under Howe and Cornwallis. Ironically, the most effective enemies in the history of the United States were not the leaders of foreign military forces—like Mexico's Santa Anna, Japan's Yamamoto, or Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap. They arose from among its own citizens during the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.
Author : Melanie W. Sisson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000056872
This book examines the use of military force as a coercive tool by the United States, using lessons drawn from the post-Cold War era (1991–2018). The volume reveals that despite its status as sole superpower during the post-Cold War period, US efforts to coerce other states failed as often as they succeeded. In the coming decades, the United States will face states that are more capable and creative, willing to challenge its interests and able to take advantage of missteps and vulnerabilities. By using lessons derived from in-depth case studies and statistical analysis of an original dataset of more than 100 coercive incidents in the post-Cold War era, this book generates insight into how the US military can be used to achieve policy goals. Specifically, it provides guidance about the ways in which, and the conditions under which, the US armed forces can work in concert with economic and diplomatic elements of US power to create effective coercive strategies. This book will be of interest to students of US national security, US foreign policy, strategic studies and International Relations in general.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2016-11-23
Category :
ISBN : 9781457863349
Since the previous National Military Strategy (2011_, global disorder has significantly increased while some of our comparative military advantage has begun to erode. We now face multiple, simultaneous security challenges from traditional state actors and transregional networks of sub-state groups -- all taking advantage of rapid technological change. This 2015 National Military Strategy describes how the U.S. will employ our military forces to protect and advance our national interests. We must be able to rapidly adapt to new threats while maintaining comparative advantage over traditional ones. Future conflicts will come more rapidly, last longer, and take place on a much more technically challenging battlefield. Success will increasingly depend on how well our military instrument can support the other instruments of power and enable our network of allies and partners. Figures. This is a print on demand report.
Author : Kenneth J. Hagan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 1986-03-26
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2012-08-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 130005168X
Strategist Colin Gray offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way" and the kind of behavior that is most effective in countering irregular foes. The author poses the question, "Can the American way of war adapt to a strategic threat context dominated by irregular enemies?" He suggests that the answer is "perhaps, but only with difficulty."
Author : Lawrence Freedman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1458768317
It is in the Middle East that the U.S. has been made to confront its attitudes on the use of force, the role of allies, and international law. The history of the U.S. in the Middle East, then, becomes an especially revealing mirror on America's view of its role in the wider world. In this wise, objective, and illuminating history, Lawrence Freedman shows how three key events in 1978-1979 helped establish the foundations for U.S. involvement in the Middle East that would last for thirty years, without offering any straightforward or bloodless exit options: the Camp David summit leading to the Israel-Egypt Treaty; the Iranian Islamic revolution leading to the Shah's departure followed by the hostage crisis; and the socialist revolution in Afghanistan, resulting in the doomed Soviet intervention. Drawing on his considerable expertise, Freedman makes clear how America's strategic choices in those and subsequent crises led us to where we are today.