How America Goes to WarBloomsbury Academic, 2005 M06 30 - 176 pages With American involvement in Iraq in the forefront of national news coverage and in the minds of many citizens, questions concerning America's involvement in past conflicts have once again arisen. This is the story of how the United States has gone to war and how the evolution of the nation's war-making apparatus has mirrored the nation's rise to global power. It focuses on the president's role as commander-in-chief vis-a-vis Congress from George Washington to George W. Bush. Conflicts range from the War of 1812 to the Mexican and Civil Wars, the two World Wars, conflicts in Southeast Asia, and recent wars in the Middle East. Topics include Congress's role in various wars, the evolution of the War Department to the Department of Defense, as well as developments in weapons, tactics, and strategy. |
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... casualties insignificant . This attitude turned the United States from hostility to the international arms trade into the world's largest " merchant of death . " Many World War II and Korean era weapons went on the market - which might ...
... casualties , military and civilian , a host of glitches in the operation , and loud international objec- tions ... ( casualty numbers came in varieties reminiscent of the infa- mous Vietnam " body counts " ) ? Why hadn't the Pentagon ...
... casualties and few rewards . Casualties were still anathema , especially so under media glare . Bloody pictures chilled American ardor - so it had been in Viet- nam , and doubtless remained so . Some scholarly surveys challenged this ...
Contents
The Whiskey Rebellion | 1 |
Mr Madisons War | 11 |
The War with Mexico | 21 |
Copyright | |
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