Introduction to Global Military History : 1775 to the Present Day
Jeremy Black
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
| Omfang | xvii, 338 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Utgave | Third edition
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| Opplysninger | Første utgave 2005, andre utgave 2013. - Assessing significance -- Publications and experimentation -- Tasks for assessment -- Naval power -- Power projection -- The west and the rest -- Outcomes and choices -- The American War of Independence -- War between the USA and Native Americans -- Europe before the French Revolution -- The French Revolutionary Wars, 1792-99 -- The rise of Napoleon -- Asian conflicts in the 1780s and 1790s -- The rise of Britain -- Napoleon -- The War of 1812 -- The Latin American Wars of Independence -- Europe after Napoleon -- Developments elsewhere -- The aims of conflict -- The impact of technology -- The Taiping Rebellion -- The American Civil War -- The wars of German unification -- Latin America -- Western imperialism -- American expansion -- Naval power -- Non-western states -- East Asia -- 1789-1913 in review -- Background -- Opening campaign -- Conflict within Europe -- Warfare outside Europe -- War at sea -- Closing campaign -- Post-war conflict -- Civil war in China -- Elsewhere outside the west -- The British Empire in the 1930s -- The USA -- Naval developments -- Air power -- The Japanese in China, 1931-41 -- The Spanish Civil War -- German rearmament -- Opening campaigns, 1939-41 -- Soviet Union attacked, 1941 -- War in the Pacific, 1941-42 -- Axis attacks held, 1942 -- The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-45 -- Beating Germany, 1943-4 -- D-Day, 1944 -- Defeating Germany, 1944-5 -- Defeating Japan, 1943-5 -- Air power, 1939-45 -- War and society -- Why the axis lost -- The late 1940s -- The Malayan emergency -- France in Indo-China -- France in Algeria -- Britain and decolonisation -- Portugal and decolonisation -- Elsewhere in Africa -- The Chinese Civil War -- The Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- Confrontation in Europe -- Planning for Armageddon -- The Afghan War -- The Cold War at sea -- The last stages of the Cold War -- Border wars -- Intervention wars -- South Asia -- The Middle East -- Arab-Israeli wars -- Rebellions -- Coups -- Force and the state -- American operations -- Somalia and Haiti -- Chechnya -- The former Soviet Union --Former Kosovo -- Third world conflict -- The war on terrorism -- The revolution in military affairs -- Attempted revolutions in military affairs -- War in Iraq -- War in Afghanistan -- Expenditure -- Africa -- Syria -- War and disorder -- Technology -- The west versus the rest -- Fitness for purpose -- Cultural interpretations -- Paradigm powers.
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| ISBN | 9781138484191. - 9781138922471
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