TY - BOOK AU - Boot,Max TI - The savage wars of peace: small wars and the rise of American power SN - 0465064930 (revised paperback) AV - 002 E 181 B725s 2014 U1 - 355/.033573 PY - 2014/// CY - New York, NY PB - Basic Books KW - Intervention (International law) KW - Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) KW - United States KW - Conflictos de baja intensidad (Ciencia militar) KW - Estados Unidos KW - Intervención (Derecho internacional) KW - Foreign relations KW - Public opinion KW - Armed Forces KW - Foreign countries KW - Fuerzas armadas KW - Países extranjeros KW - History, Military KW - Historia militar KW - Opinión pública extranjera N1 - First edition published 2002; Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-431) and index; List of maps Foreword to the revised edition Preface: Another American way of war Part 1: Commercial power. "To conquer upon the sea" : Barbary Wars, 1801-1805, 1815 ; "Butcher and bolt" : from the Marquesas, 1813, to China, 1859 ; Empire emerging : from Korea, 1871, to Samoa, 1899 Part 2: Great power. Red summer : Boxer uprising, 1900 ; "Attraction" and "chastisement" : the Philippine War, 1899-1902 ; Caribbean constabulary : Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, 1898-1914 ; Lords of Hispaniola : Haiti, 1915-1934, Dominican Republic, 1916-1924 ; The dusty trail : the Pancho Villa punitive expedition, 1916-1917 ; Blood on the snow : Russia, 1918-1920 ; Chasing Sandino : Nicaragua, 1926-1933 ; "By bluff alone" : China, 1901-1941 Part 3: Superpower. Lessons learned : the small wars manual ; Lessons unlearned : Vietnam, 1959-1975 ; In the shadow of Vietnam : the Powell doctrine and small wars in the 1990s ; In the shadow of 9/11 : the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ; In defense of the Pax Americana : small wars in the Twenty-First Century Afterword to the revised edition N2 - "While the major conflicts in American history have become all too familiar, America's "small wars" have played an essential but little-appreciated role in the country's growth as a world power. First published in 2002, The Savage Wars of Peace quickly became a key volume in the case for a new policy of interventionism. Max Boot shows how America's smaller actions--such as the recent conflicts in Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo, and Afghanistan--have made up the vast majority of our military engagements, and yet our armed forces do little to prepare for these "low intensity conflicts." A compellingly readable history of the forgotten wars that helped promote America's rise in the last two centuries, The Savage Wars of Peace is now updated with new material on the repercussions of America's far-flung imperial actions and the impact of these ventures in American international affairs"--Amazon.com, viewed April 3, 2014 ER -