The deaths of others : the fate of civilians in America's wars / / John Tirman.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 408 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars
- American wars and the culture of violence
- Strategic bombing in the Second World War
- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting
- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility
- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy
- Iraq : the twenty years' war
- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier
- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement
- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic
- The epistemology of war.