America's war for the greater Middle East a military history
From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers have been killed in action anywhere else. What caused this shift? Andrew J. Bacevich, one of the country's most respected...
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New York :
Random House,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A note to readers
- Maps
- Prologue
- Part I. Preliminaries. War of choice. Gearing up. Arsenal of theocracy. Silver screen six is calling. Mad dog, kicked, bites back. Rescuing evil. No clean ending
- Part II. Entr'acte. Good Intentions. Balkan digression. What winning means. Phony war
- Part III. Main card. Changing the way they live. Kicking down the door. How this ends. Government in a box. Entropy. Iraq, again. Generational war
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
