Fitzgerald / Ryan / Thompson Not Even Past

How the United States Ends Wars
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-216-8
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan: Taken together, these conflicts are the key to understanding more than a half century of American military history. In addition, they have shaped, in profound ways, the culture and politics of the United States—as well as the nations in which they have been fought. This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States’ often halting and conflicted attempts to end wars. It 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzgerald, David

Ryan, David

Thompson, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

David Ryan and David Fitzgerald

Part I: Vietnam

Chapter 1. The Importance of Being Popular: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Domestic Support for the Vietnam War

Sarah Thelen

Chapter 2. The Things They Carry: Vietnam and the Legacies of the American War

Edwin A. Martini

Chapter 3. “His Epitaph Is Also Ours”: Robert McNamara, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the Vietnam War’s Contested Usable Past

David Kieran

Chapter 4. After the Fall of Saigon: Strategic Implications of America’s Involvement in Vietnam

Robert K. Brigham

Part II: Iraq and Afghanistan

Chapter 5. The Ironies of Overwhelming “Victory”: Exits and the Dislocation of the Gulf War

David Ryan

Chapter 6. Failing to End: Obama and Iraq

David Fitzgerald and David Ryan

Chapter 7. A “Responsible End” to the Afghan War: The Politics and Pitfalls of Crafting “Success” Narratives

Jeffrey H. Michaels

Chapter 8. Flawed Afghanization: Underestimating and Misunderstanding the Taliban

Antonio Giustozzi

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

Andrew J. Bacevich

Chapter 10. How Wars Do Not End: The Challenges for Twenty-First Century US Foreign Policy and Intervention

Scott Lucas

Chapter 11. Coming Home: Soldier Homecomings and the All-Volunteer Force in American Society and Culture

David Fitzgerald

Chapter 12. How the United States Ends Wars

Marilyn B. Young

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fitzgerald, David
David Fitzgerald is a Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork, Ireland. His books include Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine from Vietnam to Iraq (Stanford, 2013) and Obama, US Foreign Policy and the Dilemmas of Intervention (with David Ryan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Thompson, John M.
John M. Thompson is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. His books include Progressivism in America: Past, Present and Future (with David Woolner, Oxford University Press, 2016) and the "Discovery" of Europe (with Hans Krabbendam, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Ryan, David
David Ryan is Professor of Modern History at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of many books, including U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other, edited with Michael Cullinane (Berghahn, 2015), and Frustrated Empire: US Foreign Policy from 9/11 to Iraq (Pluto and University of Michigan, 2007).

David Fitzgerald is a Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork, Ireland. His books include Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine from Vietnam to Iraq (Stanford, 2013) and Obama, US Foreign Policy and the Dilemmas of Intervention (with David Ryan, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).