A fundamental fact seems relatively clear: Americans do not personally like to fight in wars, especially and most particularly as members of ground forces. Indeed, Americans have greatly and often passionately-sometimes even violently-resisted personal participation in combat and have used various means including political efforts, to avoid circumstances that could require such participation
Never was this country faced with such grave danger. Yet we seem to be devoting more of our energies...
Finally, readers seeking truth of these unfortunate years should as far as they can divest themselv...
The author examines the principal characteristics and ideas associated with the American way of war,...
The much debated subjects of zero draft and the all-volunteer force have become reality for America\...
In my frantic rush to catch up on the eight years of American history that I missed, I am often appa...
American ideals and beliefs about war are very much more vague. As we see them in American history, ...
It is almost a truism to observe that the American public is ambivalent in its feelings toward the U...
More than ten years ago, historian Colin Gray asserted that, to put it bluntly, America has become a...
I want to express as emphatically as I can my disapproval of the policy of this country in lending o...
Why couldn\u27t the United States stay out of this area? The answer lies in three phases of internat...
Vacillation and an absence of stability in American public opinion is often cited as a destabilizing...
Since achieving victory in World War II, the United States military has a less than enviable combat ...
Americans, like most human beings, recoil at the thought of war, and the idea of another war, a Worl...
Few military professionals, or the states they serve, can in the present state of the world follow E...
For two decades political and military leaders have been debating the various aspects of interventio...
Never was this country faced with such grave danger. Yet we seem to be devoting more of our energies...
Finally, readers seeking truth of these unfortunate years should as far as they can divest themselv...
The author examines the principal characteristics and ideas associated with the American way of war,...
The much debated subjects of zero draft and the all-volunteer force have become reality for America\...
In my frantic rush to catch up on the eight years of American history that I missed, I am often appa...
American ideals and beliefs about war are very much more vague. As we see them in American history, ...
It is almost a truism to observe that the American public is ambivalent in its feelings toward the U...
More than ten years ago, historian Colin Gray asserted that, to put it bluntly, America has become a...
I want to express as emphatically as I can my disapproval of the policy of this country in lending o...
Why couldn\u27t the United States stay out of this area? The answer lies in three phases of internat...
Vacillation and an absence of stability in American public opinion is often cited as a destabilizing...
Since achieving victory in World War II, the United States military has a less than enviable combat ...
Americans, like most human beings, recoil at the thought of war, and the idea of another war, a Worl...
Few military professionals, or the states they serve, can in the present state of the world follow E...
For two decades political and military leaders have been debating the various aspects of interventio...
Never was this country faced with such grave danger. Yet we seem to be devoting more of our energies...
Finally, readers seeking truth of these unfortunate years should as far as they can divest themselv...
The author examines the principal characteristics and ideas associated with the American way of war,...