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War Over Kosovo Andrew J. Bacevich

War Over Kosovo By Andrew J. Bacevich

War Over Kosovo by Andrew J. Bacevich


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Summary

More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a American way of war. This volume includes an overview of the war. It explores the conflict's relationship to US strategy, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and American civil-military relations, among other topics.

War Over Kosovo Summary

War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age by Andrew J. Bacevich

More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American way of war. In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale. What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for humanitarian purposes? Does the precedent set by intervention of this type point toward peace and stability or toward more war? How well suited are the United States military and American society as a whole to the security challenges of the age of globalization? According to Bacevich and Cohen, gauging the success achieved in Kosovo yields important answers to these and related questions. The volume includes a well-crafted historical overview of the war and six essays that place it in a broader context. The contributors explore the conflict's relationship to U.S. grand strategy, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and American civil-military relations, among other topics. Contributors: William A. Arkin, Andrew J. Bacevich, Eliot A. Cohen, Alberto R. Coll, James Kurth, Anatol Lieven, Michael Vickers

War Over Kosovo Reviews

Bacevich and Cohen see important problems with [the military model in Kosovo]. Foreign Affairs The beauty of the book is its insightful analysis of the grand security strategy implications for the United States and the world...It is imperative that all military professionals internalize the book's conclusions. The analyses are prescient, complementary, and well supported. Study of the profession of arms demands that this wise work be included in any professional library. -- MAJ Michael A. WOrmley, USAF Military Review

About Andrew J. Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University where he also serves as director of the university's Center for International Relations. He is the author of The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army Between Korea and Vietnam.Eliot Cohen is professor of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, where he is also the founding director of the Center for Strategic Education. He is the coauthor of Revolution in Warfare?: Air Power in the Persian Gulf.

Table of Contents

Introduction, by Andrew J. Bacevich and Eliot A. Cohen Operation Allied Force: The Most Precise Application of Air Power in History, by William M. Arkin Kosovo and the New American Way of War, by Eliot A. Cohen First War of the Global Era: Kosovo and U.S. Grand Strategy, by James Kurth Hubris and Nemesis: Kosovo and the Pattern of Western Military Ascendancy and Defeat, by Anatol Lieven Kosovo and the Moral Burdens of Power, by Alberto R. Coll Neglected Trinity: Kosovo and the Crisis in U.S. Civil-Military Relations, by Andrew J. Bacevich Kosovo and the Revolution in Military Affairs, by Michael G. Vickers A Note on Contributors

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GOR003451643
9780231124836
023112483X
War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age by Andrew J. Bacevich
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Columbia University Press
20020102
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