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  title info:
    title: America's dirty wars
    sub title: irregular warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror
  name:
    name part: Crandall, Russell
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 583 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries, ending with the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Russell Crandall describes the various ways that American political and military leaders have conducted these often poorly understood, publicly neglected, or intensely controversial conflicts. Contrary to what is often assumed, Crandall argues that the United States tends to win its dirty wars, but that this at times comes at the expense of its moral self-image in these inherently murky conflicts. This exploration of America's dirty wars is interspersed with short intermezzi chapters that chronicle the experiences of the same time period of other global powers such as Great Britain and France.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Irregular warfare 101; Part I. The American Revolution to Chasing Sandino, 1776-1930s: 3. The American Revolution; 4. Confederates and Indians; 5. Intermezzo: the Boer War; 6. America, Aguinaldo, and the Philippines, 1898; 7. Chasing Villa, 1916; 8. A cold winter in Siberia; 9. The Banana Wars, 1898-1930s; 10. Intermezzo: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, 1916-18; 11. Chasing Sandino, 1927-32; Part II. The Cold War, 1940s-1989: 12. Cold War counterinsurgencies; 13. Intermezzo: Mao Zedong; 14. Fighting communism in Greece; 15. Intermezzo: France in Algeria, 1954-62; 16. Intermezzo: David Galula; 17. Intermezzo: Malaya emergency, 1948-60; 18. Ramon Magsaysay and the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the Philippines, 1946-56; 19. Vietnam; Part III. Latin America in the Cold War: 20. From Guatemala, 1954, to Cuba and the Bay of Pigs, 1961; 21. Guatemala, post-1963; 22. Cuba, post-1963; 23. Intermezzo: Che Guevara and guerrilla warfare; 24. Carter, Reagan, and the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, 1979-90; 25. El Salvador, 1979-92: Part IV. Post-Cold War: 26. Dirty Wars after the Cold War; 27. Colombia; 28. Iraq; 29. Intermezzo: the Counterinsurgency Field Manual and post-modern insurgencies; 30. Post-9/11 COIN in the Philippines; 31. Intermezzo: Afghanistan, graveyard of empires; 32. The longest war: America in Afghanistan; 33. The fall of Muammar Qaddafi; 34. Intermezzo: JSOC raids and drone strikes; 35. Conclusion.
  note: Russell Crandall.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Irregular warfare
    geographic: United States
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Intervention (International law)
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Counterinsurgency
    geographic: United States
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Insurgency
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Atrocities
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History, Military
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Military policy
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Strategic culture
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / General
  classification: U167.5.I8 C73 2014
  classification: 355.02/18
  identifier: 9780521176620 (paperback)
  identifier: 052117662X (paperback)
  identifier: 9781107003132 (hardback)
  identifier: 110700313X (hardback)
  identifier: 2013029629
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130813
    record change date: 20151206101623.0
    record identifier: in00003462735