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How wars are won and lost vulnerability and military power

Military power is a key component of state power. Yet for all the attention statesmen, soldiers, and scholars give to military power, it remains a loose concept. A considerable academic effort has catalogued characteristics of great power wars. Scholars know much about individual wars, and they unde...

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Main Author: Gentry, John A. 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, CA Praeger Security International [2012]
Subjects:
Strategy
Strategic culture > United States
Military art and science > United States
United States > history, military > 20th century
United States > History, Military > 21st century
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Philippine war of 1899-1902
  • The Allied bomber offensive against Germany (1943-1945)
  • The United States in Vietnam (1961-1975)
  • NATO's war against Yugoslavia (1999)
  • The U.S. war in Iraq (2003-2011)
  • The U.S. war in Afghanistan (2001-?)
  • Summary and conclusions.

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