Military History for the Modern Strategist - America''s Major Wars Since 1861

Military expert Michael O’Hanlon examines America’s major conflicts from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Now updated with to include the Revolutionary War and brief observations on three other conflicts in U. S. History, this unique book serves as an important treatment of America’s military history at the strategic and theater of operations levels.

Sommario

Contents

Preface to the Updated Edition

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 The American Civil War

2 World War I

3 World War II

4 Korea and Vietnam

5 America's Wars in the Middle East since 1990

6 Three Lessons

Notes
Index

Info autore

Michael O’Hanlon holds the Phil Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy at Brookings, where he also is director of research and director of the Talbott Center in the Foreign Policy program. He teaches at Columbia and Georgetown universities and elsewhere. Earlier in his career, O’Hanlon worked for the Congressional Budget Office, the Peace Corps, the “gravity group” at Princeton University, and dairy farms in upstate New York. He is the author of some 20 books, most recently The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint (Yale, 2021).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael O'Hanlon, Michael O''hanlon
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.02.2024
• EAN: 9780815740674
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-4067-4
• Pagine: 448
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, Defence strategy, planning & research, United States of America, USA, Military and defence strategy