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Truman & MacArthur: Policy, Politics, and the Hunger for Honor and Renown
ISBN: 9780253350664 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known general over the military's role in the conduct of foreign policy. In November 1950, with the army of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea mostly destroyed, Chinese military forces crossed the Yalu River. They routed the combined United Nations forces and pushed them on a long retreat down the Korean peninsula. Hoping to strike a decisive blow that would collapse the Chinese communist regime in Beijing, General Douglas MacArthur, the commander... Truman and MacArthur offers an objective and comprehensive account of the very public confrontation between a sitting president and a well-known ge... |
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131,24 zł |
Warmaking and American Democracy
ISBN: 9780700611911 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While war is most effectively waged as a united effort, the United States has consistently waged military conflict without firm central direction. Throughout our history, observes Michael Pearlman, the waging of war has been subject to continuous bargaining and compromise among competing governmental and military factions. What passes for strategy emerged from this process. Warmaking and American Democracy is the first comprehensive study of American war strategy in its domestic context. It shows how internal divisions--between political parties, presidents and Congress, elected...
While war is most effectively waged as a united effort, the United States has consistently waged military conflict without firm central direction. Thr...
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214,10 zł |