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• Machine generated contents note: pt. I TRADITION AND THE ENVISIONED FUTURE COLLIDE
• 1. Culture, Genes, and War
• Culture
• Axioms of Cultural Theory
• Genes and Culture
• War and Human Nature
• 2. Traditional American Thinking About the Conduct of War
• Traditional Practices No Longer Worked
• Culture of Equality of Sacrifice
• Culture of Inequality of Outcome
• Culture of Wealth and Consumption
• Culture of Science and Technology
• Tenets of American Culture
• 3. Legacy of World War II: Man versus Machine
• WWII Air War Doctrine vs. WWII Ground War Doctrine
• Army's Practice of War
• Airpower: A New Practice of War
• Navy and Marine Corps
• 4. Truman, the Cold War, and the Creation of a New National Military Establishment, 1945-1950
• Truman, the Policy of Containment, and National Strategy

• Strategic Airpower and National Military Strategy
• Army Opposition
• 5. Korean War, The Opening Phases, 1950-1951
• Korean War
• Opening Phase: Walker's Battle for Pusan
• Inchon Landing
• Crossing the 38th Parallel and the Chinese Intervention
• Ridgway Takes Command: The Ground War
• 6. Korean War, The Final Phases, 1951-1953
• Air War
• Censorship, the Media, and Public Opinion
• Relief of General Douglas MacArthur
• New Personnel Policies: The Results of Transformation
• Final Phase of the War: Defensive War of Attrition
• pt. II EFFORT TO ADAPT
• 7. Eisenhower, the Cold War, and Massive Retaliation, 1953-1960
• Eisenhower's Vision of War: The New Look
• Army's Fight against the New Look and the Doctrine of Massive Retaliation
• Chaotic Array of Nuclear Technologies
• 8. New National Military Command Structure, Civil-Military Relations, and the Growth of Militarism, 1945-1975
• National Military Command Structure
• Civil-Military Relations: Conflicting Loyalties
• Iron Triangle and the Growth of Militarism
• 9. Kennedy, McNamara, and Artificial Limited War, 1961-1963
• Theories of Artificial Limited War
• Kennedy: The Adoption of New Doctrines for War
• Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara
• McNamara's Reorganization of the Army
• Army Aviation: the Helicopter
• Communist Revolutionary War Doctrine and Army Counter-Revolutionary War Doctrine
• 10. Vietnam War, The Opening Phases, 1955-1967
• Geography and Strategy
• Vietnam War: Explaining American Involvement
• Advisory Phase
• Johnson and the Americanization Phase
• Air War: Graduated Response
• Ground War: The Marine Corps vs. The Army
• 11. Vietnam War, The Final Phases, 1967-1975
• Censorship, the Media, and Public Opinion
• New Personnel Policies: The Result of Transformation
• McNamara Changes Course
• Tet Offensive
• Nixon and the Vietnamization Phase
• 12. Recovery and Reorganization of the Armed Forces of the United States, 1975-1990
• "Revolution" in Strategic Bombing Doctrine
• To Rebuild an Army: Back to the Future
• Marine Corps's "New" Maneuver Warfare Doctrine
• Weinberger Strategic Doctrine: No More Graduated Response
• Goldwater Nichols Act: More Revision to the National Command Structure
• pt. III NEW AMERICAN PRACTICE OF WAR
• 13. Persian Gulf War: Operation Desert Shield, 1990-1991
• Saddam Hussein's Decision to Invade Kuwait
• Iraqi Army: Too Much Respect and Awe
• Bush's War, or America's War?
• Operation Desert Shield/Storm: Theater Strategy
• 14. Persian Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm, 1991
• Air War
• Ground War
• Military Victory and Political Failure
• Media and Public Opinion
• Verdict
• 15. New American Practice of War: War Without the People
• War Without the People: The Clustering of America
• Civil-Military Relations: Who's in Charge?
• Revolution in Military Affairs
• Jointness and Force Structure
• 16. Global War on Terrorism and The War in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2011
• Al-Qaeda vs. The Bush Administration
• Terrorism and Counterterrorism
• Response: The GWOT and Bush Doctrine of Preemptive War
• War in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2008
• Obama's War in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom, 2008-2011
• 17. Second Persian Gulf War: Operation Iraqi Freedom I, The Conventional War, 2003
• Arguments and Decision for War
• Operational Doctrine: Shock and Awe
• Theater Strategy: Franks vs. Rumsfeld
• Opposing Forces
• Air War
• Ground War
• 18. Second Persian Gulf War: Operation Iraqi Freedom II, The Counterinsurgency War, 2003-2010
• Media, Public Opinion, and War
• What Went Wrong: The Insurgency War
• Multi-National Force-Iraq: New Leadership, New Strategy, New Commitment
• New Way Forward: New Strategy, Leadership, Doctrine, and Tactics
• Rumsfeld's War
• 19. American Culture of War and the Future of Warfare
• American Culture of War
• Future of Warfare.

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Author/Creator:

Lewis, Adrian R.

Languages:

English

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Item content: English

Main Work:

The American culture of war: the history of U.S. military force from World War II to Operation Enduring Freedom [by Lewis, A.R.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: American culture of war [by Lewis, A.R.] (2nd ed.; New York : Routledge, 2012)

Subjects:

United States — Military policy

Strategic culture — United States

United States — History, Military — 20th century

United States — History, Military — 21st century

United States — Armed Forces — Weapons systems — Evaluation

National security — United States — Public opinion

Public opinion — United States

1900-2099

Strategic culture

History, Military

Armed Forces — Weapons systems

Evaluation

National security — Public opinion

National security

Public opinion

Military policy

United States

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource

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UA23 .L522 2012eb

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9781136454318 (electronic bk.)
1136454314 (electronic bk.)
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0415890209 [Invalid]
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0415890195 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1053473026

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