The savage wars of peace : small wars and the rise of American power

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Label

The savage wars of peace : small wars and the rise of American power

Title remainder

small wars and the rise of American power

Statement of responsibility

Max Boot

Creator

• Boot, Max, 1968-

Subject

• Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- United States
• Military history
• United States -- Armed Forces -- Foreign countries
• Intervention (International law)
• United States -- History, Military
• United States -- Foreign relations | Public opinion

Genre

• Military history

Language

eng

Summary

A compellingly readable history of the forgotten wars of American history: the small conflicts that resulted from-and helped promote-America's rise to world power. Boot (editorial features editor, The Wall Street Journal) celebrates American interventionism and imperialism, arguing that the military strategies involved in small wars of imperialism have been constant in American history and have demonstrated substantial success in dominating less-developed countries. His narrative history documents wars with the Barbary nations shortly after the American Revolution, numerous invasions of Central American nations, and the expansion of empire into the Pacific and notes that many of these efforts consisted of "low-intensity" conflicts that dragged on for years. He argues that if the U.S. had maintained the same strategy for Vietnam, the nationalist insurgency might have been successfully suppressed

Cataloging source

CLE

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E181

LC item number

.B728 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography