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small wars and the rise of American power
1 online resource (xxiv, 454 pages) : illustrations, maps.
List of maps -- Foreword to the revised edition -- Preface: Another American way of war -- Commercial Power: -- To conquer upon the sea: Barbary Wars, 1801-1805, 1815 -- Butcher and bolt: from the Marquesas, 1813, to China, 1859 -- Empire emerging: from Korea, 1871, to Samoa, 1899 -- Great Power: -- Red summer: Boxer uprising, 1900 -- Attraction and "chastisement": the Philippine War, 1899-1902 -- Caribbean constabulary: Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, 1898-1914 -- Lords of Hispaniola: Haiti, 1915-1934, Dominican Republic, 1916-1924 -- Dusty trail: the Pancho Villa punitive expedition, 1916-1917 -- Blood on the snow: Russia, 1918-1920 -- Chasing Sandino: Nicaragua, 1926-1933 -- By bluff alone: China, 1901-1941 -- Superpower: -- Lessons learned: the small wars manual -- Lessons unlearned: Vietnam, 1959-1975 -- In the shadow of Vietnam: the Powell doctrine and small wars in the 1990s -- In the shadow of 9/11: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq -- In defense of the Pax Americana: small wars in the Twenty-First Century -- Afterword to the revised edition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-431) and index.
Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)