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The deaths of others : the fate of civilians in America's wars
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The deaths of others : the fate of civilians in America's wars / John Tirman.
ISBN
9780195381214 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0195381211 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Physical Description
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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