On 4 June, the OAS Ad Hoc Committee led by Ellsworth Bunker arrived in Santo Domingo. From the outset, Bunker made it clear that he was his "own man," not an agent of the State Department, and that his dual status as the committee's ...
Just a few weeks later Akehurst was in Salalah attending a reception given by the Sultan of Oman for the diplomatic corps when he was summoned to attend the Sultan: 'I went forward and sat beside him on a bench and he said, in effect, ...
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.
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, ...
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.
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.
Max Boot's new book is a history of those smaller, undeclared wars that, he argues, have always played a key role in American international affairs. This story, he shows, has...