Book Description
Why America Fights explores how the U.S. government has sold war aims designed to rally public support throughout the 20th century.
Author : Susan A. Brewer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0199753962
Why America Fights explores how the U.S. government has sold war aims designed to rally public support throughout the 20th century.
Author : Susan Ann Brewer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Patriotism
ISBN : 9780197717943
Author : Sherwood Eddy
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 1942
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
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Introduction 1. The "Divine Mission": War in the Philippines 2. Crusade for Democracy: Over There in the Great War 3. The Good War: Fighting for a Better Life in World War II 4. War in Korea: "The Front Line in the Struggle between Freedom and Tyranny.
Author : William L. O'Neill
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674197374
Surveys the bureaucratic mistakes--including poor weapons and strategic blunders--that marked America's entry into World War II, showing how these errors were overcome by the citizens waging the war.
Author : Gideon Rose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1416590552
The first comprehensive treatment of how the United States has handled the final stages of its conflicts-from World War I to Iraq-spoiled repeatedly by leaders' failures to plan clearly for what to do when the guns fall silent. Concerned with not repeating past errors, our leaders miscalculate and prolong the conflict or invite unwelcome results. In his penetrating analysis of past, present, and future wars, Rose suggests how to break this cycle.
Author : Douglas A. MacGregor
Publisher : Praeger Pub Text
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313361579
MacGregor argues for a tight integration between air and ground forces to change the way that our armed forces organize their capacity to fight.
Author : Dominic Tierney
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803243960
Americans love war. We’ve never run from a fight. Our triumphs from the American Revolution to World War II define who we are as a nation and a people. Americans hate war. Our leaders rush us into conflicts without knowing the facts or understanding the consequences. Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq and Afghanistan define who we are as a nation and a people. How We Fight explores the extraordinary double-mindedness with which Americans approach war and articulates the opposing perspectives that have governed our responses throughout history: the “crusade” tradition, or our love of grand quests to defend democratic values and overthrow tyrants; and the “quagmire” tradition, or our resistance to the work of nation-building and its inevitable cost in dollars and American lives. How can one nation be so split? Studying conflicts from the Civil War to the present, Dominic Tierney uncovers the secret history of American foreign policy and provides a frank and insightful look at how Americans respond to the ultimate challenge. And he shows how U.S. military ventures can succeed. His innovative model for tackling the challenges of modern war suggests the possibility of enduring victory in Afghanistan and elsewhere by rediscovering a lost American warrior tradition.
Author : John Strong Perry Tatlock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780484910958
Excerpt from Why America Fights Germany (Cantonment: Edition) America is a peaceable nation. We believe in the principle of live and let live. We respect other nations' rights, wish them prosperity, and envy them nothing. We have vast territory and undeveloped resources, enough to occupy our minds and hands for generations without meddling with other people's concerns. We believe that the peace and happiness of mankind will be promoted by self government for all, by allowing the population of each civilized country to govern itself. Through almost our whole history we have stood for democracy and peace. We have protected China from robbery and war on the part of more greedy nations, and have stood the strongest friend of the new Chinese republic. In 1896 we stood the friend of Venezuela in her controversy with Great Britain, and prevented war. For years we have even allowed our own citizens to be wronged in Mexico rather than make war on our neighbor republic. Consequently, we are now trusted as the big brother of all the republics in the New World. When we departed from our peaceful policy in 1898, and made war on Spain, it was in order to stop intolerable oppression at our very door, in Cuba. We then gave and have guarded the independence of Cuba, and only took the Philippine Islands in order to save them from falling to Some less disinterested nation, and in order to educate their people for independence later. Thus we have always worked for peace, and for the justice to all which is the only sure way to maintain peace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Strong Perry Tatlock
Publisher : Washington : Committee on Public Information
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1918
Category : United States
ISBN :