America and Guerrilla Warfare (eBook)

Anthony James Joes (Autor)

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2021
432 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8305-3 (ISBN)

Infos

From South Carolina to South Vietnam, America's two hundred-year involvement in guerrilla warfare has been extensive and varied. America and Guerrilla Warfare analyzes conflicts in which Americans have participated in the role of, on the side of, or in opposition to guerrilla forces, providing a broad comparative and historical perspective on these types of engagements.Anthony James Joes examines nine case studies, ranging from the role of Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, in driving Cornwallis to Yorktown and eventual surrender to the U.S. support of Afghan rebels that hastened the collapse of the Soviet Empire. He analyzes the origins of each conflict, traces American involvement, and seeks patterns and deviations. Studying numerous campaigns, including ones staged by Confederate units during the Civil War, Joes reveals the combination of elements that can lead a nation to success in guerrilla warfare or doom it to failure.In a controversial interpretation, he suggests that valuable lessons were forgotten or ignored in Southeast Asia. The American experience in Vietnam was a debacle but, according to Joes, profoundly atypical of the country's overall experience with guerrilla warfare. He examines several twentieth-century conflicts that should have better prepared the country for Vietnam: the Philippines after 1898, Nicaragua in the 1920s, Greece in the late 1940s, and the Philippines again during the Huk War of 1946-1954. Later, during the long Salvadoran conflict of the 1980s, American leaders seemed to recall what they had learned from their experiences with this type of warfare.Guerrilla insurgencies did not end with the Cold War. As America faces recurring crises in the Balkans, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and possibly Asia, a comprehensive analysis of past guerrilla engagements is essential for today's policymakers.

Autor

Anthony James Joes, professor of international politics and director of the international relations program at St. Joseph's University, is the author of Guerrilla Warfare and Guerrilla Conflict before the Cold War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: 20th century conflict • Afghanistan • Afghan rebels • Africa • American History • american war history • Balkans • Balkan War • Battle • Civil War • Cold War • Confederacy • Confederate • Cornwallis • Francis Marion • Greece • guerrilla force • Huk War • Insurgency • Middle East • Nicaragua • Philippines • Salvador • Salvadoran conflict • South Carolina • Southeast Asia • South Vietnam • Soviet Empire • Soviet Union • Swamp Fox • Yorktown
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-8305-7 / 0813183057
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-8305-3 / 9780813183053