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Peter HuchthausenPublication Details
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Since the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, America has committed its forces to combat in more than a dozen military operations. This timely and riveting military history shows how America-now the world’s sole remaining superpower-has enforced the global “Pax Americana” by developing and honing its military capability and making sophisticated use of the media and public sentiment. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "America’s Splendid Little Wars shows how the United States - now the world’s sole remaining superpower - has enforced the global "Pax Americana" by honing the military’s capability to strike desired targets, and also by making sophisticated use of the media and public sentiment. From the 1975 operation to recover the hijacked merchant ship SS Mayaguez in the Gulf of Siam to the 1999 "relief intervention" in Kosovo, distinguished author and former U.S. naval captain Peter Huchthausen presents an intimate history of each military engagement through eyewitness accounts, thorough research, and his unique insider perspective as an intelligence expert."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Pt. 1. Gerald R. Ford: Rebounding Against Piracy
- Ch. 1. Recovery SS Mayaguez and the Fight on Koh Tang
- Pt. 2. James E. Carter, Jr.: Choosing Military Action
- Ch. 2. America and Special Warfare
- Ch. 3. The Hostage Rescue Attempt
- Pt. 3. Ronald W. Reagan: Lashing Out
- Ch. 4. Intervention in Lebanon
- Ch. 5. Intervention in Grenada
- Ch. 6. Retaliatory Attacks on Libya
- Ch. 7. Escort and Retaliation in the Persian Gulf
- Pt. 4. George H. W. Bush: Using a Big Stick
- Ch. 8. Storming Panama
- Ch. 9. The Gulf War: Desert Shield
- Ch. 10. The Gulf War: Desert Storm
- Ch. 11. The Rescue of the Kurds in Northern Iraq
- Pt. 5. Intervention in Somalia
- Ch. 12. President Bush Responds to Starvation
- Ch. 13. President Clinton Crosses the Mogadishu Line
- Pt. 6. William J. Clinton: On the Edge of the Balkans
- Ch. 14. Intervention in Bosnia
- Ch. 15. Intervention in Kosovo
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- 0670032328
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