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Subjects
Foreign public opinion, Civilians in war, Militarism, War and society, Military History, Military policy, Battle casualtiesPlaces
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The deaths of others: the fate of civilians in America's wars
2011, Oxford University Press
in English
0195381211 9780195381214
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars
American wars and the culture of violence
Strategic bombing in the Second World War
The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting
The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility
The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy
Iraq : the twenty years' war
Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier
Three atrocities and the rules of engagement
Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic
The epistemology of war.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-401) and index.
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