Command : the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freedman, Lawrence (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.