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Informationen zum Autor Christopher C. Harmon is a terrorism specialist and held the privately endowed Horner Chair at the Marine Corps University Foundation. He has lectured at INTERPOL headquarters, on Capitol Hill, and at dozens of universities and graduate schools, in the United States and abroad. The lead author or editor of four books on terrorism and counterterrorism, he has published essays in the geopolitics journal Orbis , Strategic Studies Quarterly , and Oxford bibliographies . Klappentext In this completely revised and updated second edition, historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter have gathered an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. Zusammenfassung In this completely revised and updated second edition! historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter have gathered an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: The Colonial Wars and the American Revolution Chapter 2: Napoleonic Warfare Chapter 3: The Wars of 1812 and 1846: The Leadership Factor Chapter 4: The American Civil War, 1861-1865 Chapter 5: Indian Wars of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1850s-1890s Chapter 6: The Military Role of the United States in World War I Chapter 7: The United States, World War II, and the Grand Alliance Chapter 8: The Second World War: The War against Japan Chapter 9: The Korean Conflict and the Cold War Chapter 10: America in Vietnam Chapter 11: Proliferation: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race Chapter 12: Counterterrorism and the U.S. Military after 9/11 Afterword
