Command : the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine /
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the politics of command
- Supreme commander: Truman and MacArthur
- The fury of the Legions: the French Army in Indochina and Algeria
- Keeping control: the Cuban Missile Crisis
- The very model of insubordination: Ariel Sharon and Israel's wars
- Civil war: the surrender of East Pakistan
- Orders from on high: responses to North Vietnam's 1972 offensive
- Command in theatre: the Falklands campaign
- Dictator as supreme commander: Saddam Hussein
- Command in a fragile state: Guevara, Kabila, and the Congo
- Command in a faltering state: the Russian invasion of Chechnya
- Too many cooks: Kosovo in 1999
- From hybrid conflict to all-out war: Russia fights Ukraine
- The War on Terror: the battle of Tora Bora
- A tale of two surges: Iraq 2006-7
- War among the people: fighting the Taliban and Isis
- Past, present and future of command.