The savage wars of peace
Subtitle: small wars and the rise of American power
By: Max Boot.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- United States; Intervention (International law); United States -- History, Military; United States -- Armed Forces -- Foreign countries; United States -- Foreign relations -- Public opinion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-408) and index.
Originally published 2002.
Table of contents: title: "To conquer upon the sea": Barbary Wars, 1801-1805, 1815; title: "Butcher and bolt": from the Marquesas, 1813, to China, 1859; title: Empire emerging: from Korea, 1871, to Samoa, 1899; title: Red summer: Boxer uprising, 1900; title: "Attraction" and "Chastisement": the Philippine War, 1899-1902; title: Carribean constabulary: Cuba:, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, 1898-1914; title: Lords of Hispaniola: Haiti, 1915-1934; Dominican Republic, 1916-1924; title: The dusty trail: the Pancho Villa punitive expedition, 1916-1917; title: Blood on the snow: Russia, 1918-1920; title: Chasing Sandino: Nicaragua, 1926-1933; title: "By bluff alone": China, 1901-1941; title: Lessons learned: the small wars manual; title: Lessons unlearned: Vietnam, 1959-1975; title: In the shadow of Vietnam: the Powell doctrine and small wars in the 1990s; title: In defense of the Pax Americana: small wars in the Twenty-First Century.