This work focuses on the military and diplomatic role played by
Major General William S. Graves and the United States Army
expeditionary force sent to Siberia as part of a joint
American-Japanese intervention following the Bolshevik Revolution.
The United States faced a very difficult mission due to the
motivations of the other occupying forces, particularly the
Japanese. As the United States sought to allow some form of
self-determination in Civil War Russia, the American experience
would reflect many of the same issues and troubles that have beset
more recent attempts at nation-building. Japanese expansionism that
would in part lead to war in the Pacific in 1941 was on full
display in Siberia in 1918. General Graves was also in the now
familiar position of having to oversee competing national and
international interests in a war-torn country. The story of the AEF
Siberia and its commander has great relevance in the 21st Century
as it too occurred in a time of political upheaval that seemed to
threaten the fabric of Western society.
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