While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace TodaySt. Martin's Press, 2014 M09 30 - 480 pages In While England Slept Winston Churchill revealed in 1938 how the inadequacy of Britain's military forces to cope with worldwide responsibilities in a peaceful but tense era crippled its ability to deter or even adequately prepare for World War II. |
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... Italy, Germany, and Japan, ultimately producing a coalition of these unlikely allies, World War II, and the near conquest of Britain itself. How does this compare with the record of the United States today? The United States has reduced ...
... Italy, and others, wrangled among themselves and with the Germans over the terms of the peace treaty that concluded the bloodiest war the world had ever seen. The Treaty of Versailles was not signed until June 1919, and was not ratified ...
... as well), the British army had fought the Entente's foes on three continents and many fronts. British troops were in France, Belgium, Italy, the Balkans, Greece, European Turkey, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Persia, the.
... Italian claims to the port of Fiume, which President Wilson absolutely rejected. The crisis came to a head—and to the world's attention—when the Italian delegates walked out of the peace conference at the end of the month. The CIGS was ...
... Italians. In May, with British knowledge and Lloyd George's support, the Greek Prime Minister, Venizelos, sent a large force to seize and hold the Turkish city of Smyrna. Wilson strenuously disapproved, going so far as to ask Lloyd ...
Contents
The First Challenge to Peace | |
The Paper Lion Roars | |
Retreat from Responsibility | |
The Bill Comes | |
The Price of SelfDeception | |
The United States After the Cold | |
The New World Order | |
The Peace Dividend | |
Increased Commitments Reduced Forces | |
Kicking the Can Down the Road | |
A Legacy of Half Measures | |
The Search for Security | |
The Unraveling of Versailles | |
The Locarno Treaty | |
The Spirit of Locarno | |
Conclusion | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |