Small Wars: Low-Intensity Threats and the American Response since Vietnam

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Contents Foreword G. Kurt Piehler, Series Editor ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1.The Cold War and Limited Conflict 13 2.The Seventies Nadir and Recovery 39 3.Low-Intensity War in the Eighties 79 4.The First Gulf War and the New World Order 107 5.“Peace,” Nation Building, and the New World Disorder 139 6.The Drug War 175 7.The War on Terror 211 8.Iraq and Afghanistan 239 9.Private Military Corporations in the New Century 263 Conclusions 285 Notes 297 Selected Bibliography 371 Index 403 ...