Uncertain Warriors - The United States Army Between the Cold War and the War on Terror

"This book shows how the US Army -disoriented by the end of the Cold War and struggling to appease domestic culture wars - spent the 1990s suffering from an identity crisis. This unique work will interest students and scholars of contemporary American military history"--

List of contents

Introduction - Warriors at the End of History; 1. The Post-Vietnam Recovery, Operation Desert Storm, and the Veneration of the Volunteer Soldier; 2. Gender, Sexuality, and the Profession of Arms: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Women in Combat and the 'Band of Brothers'; 3. Warriors Who Don't Fight: The Dilemmas of Peacekeeping Operations; 4. Downsizing, Recruiting and the Debates over Military Service; 5. Technological Transformation and the American Soldier; 6. The Warrior Ethos; Epilogue.

About the author

David Fitzgerald is Lecturer in International Relations at University College Cork. His first book, Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Practice from Vietnam to Iraq (2013), was a finalist for the Society of Military History's Edward M. Coffman prize.

Summary

This book shows how the US Army – disoriented by the end of the Cold War and struggling to appease domestic culture wars – spent the 1990s suffering from an identity crisis. This unique work will interest students and scholars of contemporary American military history.

Product details

• Authors: David Fitzgerald, David (University College Cork) Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009235808
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0923580-8
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Military, War, and Society in Modern American History; Military, War, and Society in
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas