Not Even Past : : How the United States Ends Wars /

Not Even Past : : How the United States Ends Wars / / ed. by David Fitzgerald, John M. Thompson, David Ryan.

Offers essential perspectives on the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and explores the troubling implications of the American tendency to fight wars without end. “Featuring lucid and penetrating essays by a stellar roster of scholars, the volume provides deep insights into one of the grand puzzles of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Bacevich, Andrew J.,
Brigham, Robert K.,
Fitzgerald, David,
Giustozzi, Antonio,
Kieran, David,
Lucas, Scott,
Martini, Edwin A.,
Michaels, Jeffrey H.,
Ryan, David,
Thelen, Sarah,
Young, Marilyn B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Fitzgerald, David,
Ryan, David,
Thompson, John M.,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Vietnam
  • Chapter 1 The Importance of Being Popular Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Domestic Support for the Vietnam War
  • Chapter 2 The Things They Carry Vietnam and the Legacies of the American War
  • Chapter 3 “His Epitaph Is Also Ours” Robert McNamara, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the Vietnam War’s Contested Usable Past
  • Chapter 4 After the Fall of Saigon Strategic Implications of America’s Involvement in Vietnam
  • Part II Iraq and Afghanistan
  • Chapter 5 The Ironies of Overwhelming “Victory” Exits and the Dislocation of the Gulf War
  • Chapter 6 Failing to End Obama and Iraq
  • Chapter 7 A “Responsible End” to the Afghan War: The Politics and Pitfalls of Crafting “Success” Narratives
  • Chapter 8 Flawed Afghanization: Underestimating and Misunderstanding the Taliban
  • Part III The Cultural and Strategic Costs of War in the Early Twenty-First Century
  • Chapter 9 Changing the Subject How the United States Responds to Strategic Failure
  • Chapter 10 How Wars Do Not End The Challenges for Twenty-First Century US Foreign Policy and Intervention
  • Chapter 11 Coming Home Soldier Homecomings and the All-Volunteer Force in American Society and Culture
  • Chapter 12 How the United States Ends Wars
  • Index

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