The deaths of others the fate of civilians in America's wars /

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Tirman, John
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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.