Kategoria BISAC: History >> Wars & Conflicts - Persian Gulf War (1991)

Steve A. Yetiv has developed an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to studying foreign policy decisions, which he applies here to understand better how and why the United States went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 2003.

Yetiv's innovative method employs the rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics models to explain the foreign policy behavior of governments. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources to date--including a trove of recently declassified documents--and on interviews with key actors, he applies these models to...

Am 21. Marz 1933 inszenierten die Nationalsozialisten mit dem "Tag von Potsdam" publikumswirksam den Schulterschluss der neuen Machthaber mit den alten, wilhelminischen Eliten aus Adel, Burgertum, Kirche und Militar. 80 Jahre nach dem Umbruchsjahr 1933 werden im vorliegenden Band die historischen Kontexte des "Tages von Potsdam]" als einer entscheidenden Wegmarke bei der Errichtung der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur noch einmal naher betrachtet. In neun Beitragen von renommierten Wissenschaftlern wird zunachst der Verlauf des "Tages von Potsdam" rekonstruiert, seine Bedeutung in der...

From its questionable debut over Panama, the shoot-down of a Nighthawk during Operation Allied Force over the former Yugoslavia, to the mind-boggling successes enjoyed by the type in the two Gulf Wars, this is the story of another 'Skunk Works' icon that took aircraft design and operational capabilities to previously unprecedented levels.

Even from the earliest days of 'dog-fighting', when pilots attempted to attack their advisories with the sun on their backs, one adage has held true - "you can't destroy what you can't see." Even with the advent of radar the precept remains valid,...

On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven days, sixteen of these planes were shot down and another four suffered heavy damage. These losses soon proved so devastating that Strategic Air Command was ordered to halt the bombing. The U.S. Air Force's poor performance in this and other operations during Vietnam was partly due to the fact that they had trained their pilots according to methods devised during World War II and the Korean War, when strategic bombers attacking targets were...

Christdemokratische und konservative Parteien spielten in der zweiten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine immer wichtigere integrationspolitische Rolle. Es gab neue Anreize und Herausforderungen fur transnationale Kontakte und organisierte Parteienkooperation. Nach dem "Genfer Kreis" und den "Nouvelles Equipes Internationales" (NEI) konstituierte sich die "Europaische Union Christlicher Demokraten" (EUCD) 1965. Es folgten die Europaische Volkspartei (EVP) 1976 und die European Democrat Union (EDU) 1978. Diese Parteienzusammenschlusse fuhrten zur Abstimmung in politischen und ideologischen...