美国军事史U.S. Military History For Dummies

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Introduction Part I: The Nitty-Gritty of US Military History 　Chapter 1: Why This Stuff Is Important 　Chapter 2: Why America Goes to War and Who We Fight 　Chapter 3: Meeting the Players 　Chapter 4: Lining Up the Armed Services 　Chapter 5: The Changing Experience of Warfare Part II: Born in War 　Chapter 6: When the English Were Our Friends: Battling the Indians and the French 　Chapter 7: So You Want to Start a Revolution: The War for Independence 　Chapter 8: War and Peace: Battling Indians, Old Friends, Tax Delinquents, and Pirates 　Chapter 9: We Have Met the Enemy: The War of 1812 Part III: Forged in War 　Chapter 10: To the Halls of Montezuma: Fighting Mexico 　Chapter 11: The Civil War 　Chapter 12: The “Indian Wars”: The Army Secures the Frontier 　Chapter 13: “Remember the Maine!” Fighting Spain and the Filipinos Part IV Going Global: The World Wars 　Chapter 14: Over There: The First World War 　Chapter 15: The Looming Crisis: World War II before American Involvement 　Chapter 16: The Greatest War: World War II Part V: Bearing Any Burden: The Cold War and the Unpaid Peace Dividend 　Chapter 17: Toying with Nuclear Armageddon: The Cold War Years　Chapter 18: Hot War in Asia: The Korean War 　Chapter 19: The Very Long War: Vietnam 　Chapter 20: A War with Allies: The Persian Gulf War　Chapter 21: The Long War Ahead: Terrorism, Afghanistan, and Iraq Part VI:The Part of Tens 　Chapter 22: The Ten Best Generals in US Military History 　Chapter 23: The Ten Worst Generals in US Military History 　Chapter 24: The Ten Best Movies on US Military HistoryIndex

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  Want to know more about American military history? U.S. Military History For Dummies presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation's armed conflicts from the French and Indian War to Iraq. It explains how the U.S. military is organized and how its branches operate, both independently and together.         This straightforward guide examines the causes for each of America's wars and reveals how these conflicts have shaped the nation's borders, society, politics, culture, and future. You'll meet heroes, cowards, patriots, and traitors; relive great battles; and get a taste of what combat is really like, as you discover:             How the French/Indian war sowed the seeds of the Revolutionary War       Why America's battle for independence didn't end at Yorktown       Early U.S. wars against Indians, tax cheats, and pirates       The War of 1812: guaranteeing U.S. sovereignty       "Manifest Destiny" wars that stretched America from sea to shining sea       Why the American Civil War could not be avoided       The Spanish American War and the U.S. as an emerging global power       Why World War I failed to "make the world safe for democracy"       How World War II changed America's role in the world       Korea and Vietnam: hot wars during the Cold War               Featuring important insights on technological, political, and social changes that transformed the way America fights its wars U.S. Military History For Dummies is your key to understanding the evolution of the most powerful military force in history.

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