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03901aam a2200553 i 4500 001 CC4DFBFA9BE011EE97202A6F2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231216010024 008 210909t20222022enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021031778 020 $a 1009055089 020 $a 9781009055086 020 $a 131651160X 020 $a 9781316511602 035 $a (OCoLC)1261877589 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d UUM $d YDX $d OCLCO $d EAU $d OCL $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E897 $b .H36 2022 082 00 $a 973.931 $2 23 084 $a HIS027000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Henriksen, Thomas H., $e author. 245 10 $a America's wars : $b interventions, regime change, and insurgencies after the Cold War / $c Thomas H. Henriksen. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xi, 324 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge military histories 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-311) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- 1. An end and a beginning: from Cold War to Panama Invasion for regime change -- 2. The Persian Gulf War and its aftermath -- 3. Wars other than war: wars in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo -- 4. Afghanistan: regime change and building society in the graveyard of empires -- 5. The Iraq War: changing a regime, building democracy, and fighting an insurgency -- 6. American's small-footprint wars: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East -- 7. America's larger forever wars: Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq -- 8. A conclusion: the new era. 520 $a "The Cold War's end marked the start of a three-decade era of serial conflict for the United States, often for lofty humanitarian goals. Unlike the superpower standoff of the preceding epoch, the unique period since the Berlin Wall's fall in 1989 witnessed a series of small-scale conflicts, medium-sized wars, and numerous counterterrorism operations during a time of peace among the great powers. The previous four-decade span recorded nothing similar. Rather the "limited wars" in Korea and Vietnam were fought to contain the spread of communism. The immediate post-Wall years, instead, saw the United States behave as a liberal hegemon carrying out quasi-wars to make the world safe for Western-style democracy, to feed the starving, or to protect imperiled peoples, all in fulfillment of liberal internationalism dating from Woodrow Wilson. . The frequent hostilities after the Wall were unanticipated by Washington or other world capitals. No threat emerged from the dying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the West's arch rival after World War II. Thus, Washington politicians promised peace dividends, slashed military budgets, and talked about non-defense spending for civilian purposes. The U.S. Defense Department did undergo substantial reductions among its service branches, although it got little peace"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a United States $x History, Military $y 21st century. 651 0 $a United States $x History, Military $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1989- 650 0 $a Regime change. 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire militaire $y 21e sieÌcle. 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire militaire $y 20e sieÌcle. 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Relations exteÌrieures $y 1989- 650 6 $a Changement de reÌgime politique. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Military / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations $2 fast 650 7 $a Regime change $2 fast 651 7 $a United States $2 fast 648 7 $a Since 1900 $2 fast 655 7 $a Military history $2 fast 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781009053242 830 0 $a Cambridge military histories 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20231216010543.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC4DFBFA9BE011EE97202A6F2DECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search