Book contents
- America’s Wars
- Cambridge Military Histories
- America’s Wars
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 An End and a Beginning
- 2 The Persian Gulf War and Its Aftermath
- 3 Wars Other Than War
- 4 Afghanistan
- 5 The Iraq War
- 6 America’s Small-Footprint Wars
- 7 America’s Larger Forever Wars
- 8 A Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2021
Book contents
- America’s Wars
- Cambridge Military Histories
- America’s Wars
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 An End and a Beginning
- 2 The Persian Gulf War and Its Aftermath
- 3 Wars Other Than War
- 4 Afghanistan
- 5 The Iraq War
- 6 America’s Small-Footprint Wars
- 7 America’s Larger Forever Wars
- 8 A Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- America's WarsInterventions, Regime Change, and Insurgencies after the Cold War, pp. 304 - 311Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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