author = { Crandall, Russell },

title = { America's dirty wars irregular warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror },

edition = { 1. publ. } ,

publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},

isbn = {9781107003132},

isbn = {9780521176620},

keywords = { Irregular warfare United States Case studies , Intervention (International law) Government policy United States , Counterinsurgency United States Case studies , Insurgency Case studies , Atrocities Case studies , Strategic culture United States , United States History, Military Case studies , United States Military policy Moral and ethical aspects , USA , Krieg , Militär , Geschichte 1776-2011 },

year = {2014},

abstract = {Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-546) and index},

abstract = {Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Irregular warfare 101; Part I. The American Revolution to Chasing Sandino, 1776-1930s: 3. The American Revolution; 4. Confederates and Indians; 5. Intermezzo: the Boer War; 6. America, Aguinaldo, and the Philippines, 1898; 7. Chasing Villa, 1916; 8. A cold winter in Siberia; 9. The Banana Wars, 1898-1930s; 10. Intermezzo: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, 1916-18; 11. Chasing Sandino, 1927-32; Part II. The Cold War, 1940s-1989: 12. Cold War counterinsurgencies; 13. Intermezzo: Mao Zedong; 14. Fighting communism in Greece; 15. Intermezzo: France in Algeria, 1954-62; 16. Intermezzo: David Galula; 17. Intermezzo: Malaya emergency, 1948-60; 18. Ramon Magsaysay and the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the Philippines, 1946-56; 19. Vietnam; Part III. Latin America in the Cold War: 20. From Guatemala, 1954, to Cuba and the Bay of Pigs, 1961; 21. Guatemala, post-1963; 22. Cuba, post-1963; 23. Intermezzo: Che Guevara and guerrilla warfare; 24. Carter, Reagan, and the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, 1979-90; 25. El Salvador, 1979-92: Part IV. Post-Cold War: 26. Dirty Wars after the Cold War; 27. Colombia; 28. Iraq; 29. Intermezzo: the Counterinsurgency Field Manual and post-modern insurgencies; 30. Post-9/11 COIN in the Philippines; 31. Intermezzo: Afghanistan, graveyard of empires; 32. The longest war: America in Afghanistan; 33. The fall of Muammar Qaddafi; 34. Intermezzo: JSOC raids and drone strikes; 35. Conclusion.},

address = { New York, NY [u.a.] },

url = { http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2 }