The deaths of others [electronic resource] : the fate of civilians in America's wars / John Tirman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.Description: 408 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 355.00973 22
- E840.4 .T57 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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