| The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power Revised Edition Contributor(s): Boot, Max (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465064930 ISBN-13: 9780465064939 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - United States - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 355.033 |
| Physical Information: 1.31" H x 6.34" W x 9.26" (1.30 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anyone who wants to understand why America has permanently entered a new era in international relations must read this book] . . . Vividly written and thoroughly researched. -- Los Angeles Times America's small wars, imperial war, or, as the Pentagon now terms them, low-intensity conflicts, have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Along the way he sketches colorful portraits of little-known military heroes such as Stephen Decatur, Fighting Fred Funston, and Smedly Butler. This revised and updated edition of Boot's compellingly readable history of the forgotten wars that helped promote America's rise in the lst two centuries includes a wealth of new material, including a chapter on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a new afterword on the lessons of the post-9/11 world. |