Small wars
Subtitle: low-intensity threats and the American response since Vietnam
By: Michael D. Gambone
Edition: First ed.
Series: Legacies of war
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Knoxville, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781572339149
Subjects: Modern Military history; Low-intensity conflicts (Military science); Government policy; Intervention (International law); Military policy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Cold War and limited conflict; title: The seventies nadir and recovery; title: Low-intensity war in the eighties; title: The first Gulf War and the new world order; title: "Peace," nation building, and the new world disorder; title: The drug war; title: The War on Terror; title: Iraq and Afghanistan; title: Private military corporations in the new century; title: Conclusions.