Monographie

America's wars : interventions, regime change, and insurgencies after the Cold War / Thomas H. Henriksen,...

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • America's wars : interventions, regime change, and insurgencies after the Cold War / Thomas H. Henriksen,...
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press, 2022
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XI-324 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection
  • Cambridge military histories
ISBN
  • 978-1-316-51160-2
  • 1-316-51160-X
  • 978-1-00-905508-6
  • 1-00-905508-9
EAN
  • 9781009055086 br.
Appartient à la collection
  • Cambridge military histories 1754-758X
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.009 73
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 304-311. Notes bibliogr. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Introduction 1. An end and a beginning: from Cold War to Panama Invasion for regime change 2. The Persian Gulf War and its aftermath 3. Wars other than war: wars in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo 4. Afghanistan: regime change and building society in the graveyard of empires 5. The Iraq War: changing a regime, building democracy, and fighting an insurgency 6. American's small-footprint wars: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 7. America's larger forever wars: Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq 8. A conclusion: the new era
Résumé ou extrait
  • "The Cold War's end marked the start of a three-decade era of serial conflict for the United States, often for lofty humanitarian goals. Unlike the superpower standoff of the preceding epoch, the unique period since the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989 witnessed a series of small-scale conflicts, medium-sized wars, and numerous counterterrorism operations during a time of peace among the great powers. The previous four-decade span recorded nothing similar. Rather the "limited wars" in Korea and Vietnam were fought to contain the spread of communism. The immediate post-Wall years, instead, saw the United States behave as a liberal hegemon carrying out quasi-wars to make the world safe for Western-style democracy, to feed the starving, or to protect imperiled peoples, all in fulfillment of liberal internationalism dating from Woodrow Wilson. . The frequent hostilities after the Wall were unanticipated by Washington or other world capitals. No threat emerged from the dying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the West's arch rival after World War II. Thus, Washington politicians promised peace dividends, slashed military budgets, and talked about non-defense spending for civilian purposes. The U.S. Defense Department did undergo substantial reductions among its service branches, although it got little peace." (éd.)
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