Facts101 is your complete guide to The Savage Wars of Peace, Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. In this book, you will learn topics such as as those in your book plus much more. With key features such as key terms, people and places, Facts101 gives you all the information you need to prepare for your next exam. Our practice tests are specific to the textbook and we have designed tools to make the most of your limited study time.
Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, ...
He wanted to aid liberal democrats who had briefly held power before being toppled—Maderistas in Mexico, ... three days after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 160 British Royal Marines disembarked at the northern Russian port of Murmansk.
... Dick ( Lieutenant Colonel ) , 319 Cohen , Eliot , 460 , 465–66 Cohen , William , 366 Colbert , Jean - Baptiste ... 257 Chinook ( MH - 47E ) , 352 , 369 Chlum , 118 , 137–38 , 139 Christensen , Clayton , 459 Christie , J. Walter ...
" -- Washington Post "Our greatest living man of letters." -- Boston Globe "Vidal's imagination of American politics is so powerful as to compel awe." -- Harold Bloom, The New York Review of Books
Describes the history of unconventional and nontraditional warfare from the nomads used by Alexander the Great to the shadowy modern battlefields of the post-9/11 era and featuring a diverse cast of historical tacticians and revolutionaries ...
Thoroughly sharp and honest treatment of a brutal conflict.The Algerian War (1954-1962) was a savage colonial war, killing an estimated one million Muslim Algerians and expelling the same number of...
In this completely revised and updated second edition, historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter have gathered an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era ...
This book aims to solve the problem of how parts of mankind escaped from an apparently inevitable trap of war, famine and disease in the last three hundred years.
General Vo Nguyen Giap , How We Won the War ( Philadelphia : Recon , 1976 ) , p . ... Cao Van Vien , The Final Collapse ( Washington , DC : U.S. Army Center of Military History , 1983 ) ; Alan Dawson , 55 Days : The Fall of South Viet ...
In 2008, Col. Gian Gentile exposed a growing rift among military intellectuals with an article titled “Misreading the Surge Threatens U.S. Army’s Conventional Capabilities,” that appeared in World Politics Review.