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The Eagle's Talons - The American Experience at War (Paperback)
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The Eagle's Talons - The American Experience at War (Paperback)
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Loot Price R559
Discovery Miles 5 590
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Americans have traditionally viewed war as an aberration in the
normal course of events. Although paying lip service to the
Clausewitzian dictum that war and politics are two parts of a
tightly knit whole, we have traditionally waged wars as great
crusades divorced from political realities. Thus we have been
nonplussed in the last half of the twentieth century by our
involvement in limited wars waged for limited objectives. America's
responsibilities as a superpower with worldwide interests forced
upon us the unpleasant notion of using our armed forces as
practical instruments of political policy. The reality of this
notion has been difficult for many Americans to understand and
accept. Col Dennis M. Drew and Dr. Donald M. Snow have performed a
significant service by producing a volume that places the American
experience at war in its proper political context. Going further,
they have also placed the American experience in a technological
context and analyzed how political and technological factors
influenced the conduct of American wars. In addition, they have
combined all of these factors and analyzed their influences on the
outcomes of our wars, what Sir Basil Liddell Hart called "the
better state of peace," which is the fundamental objective of
warfare. One can find a number of military, political, and
technological histories that address the American experience at
war. However, I know of no other single volume that addresses all
of these aspects in such a concise and readable fashion. But
Eagle's Talons is much more than just a history of the American
experience. If gaining insights about where we are going requires
an understanding of where we have been, Colonel Drew and Dr. Snow
provide a key to understanding how and why the United States might
employ its military power in the future.
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