Enduring Controversies in Military History: Critical Analyses and Context [2 volumes]
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Tucker, Spencer. Enduring Controversies in Military History: Critical Analyses and Context [2 volumes]. ABC-CLIO, 2017. ABC-CLIO, publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440841200.
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This provocative examination of major controversies in military history enables readers to learn how scholars approach controversial topics and provides a model for students in the study and discussion of other historical events.
• Provides compelling examinations of major controversies in military history from the time of the ancient world to the modern day• Enables readers to see how historians address such topics and understand how their process could be applied to other topics or research areas
• Offers a bibliography specific to each topic to give students looking to do further research a wealth of options
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Enduring Controversies in Military History: Critical Analyses and Context [2 volumes]
Author(s): Tucker, Spencer;Contributors: Tucker, Spencer; Tucker, Spencer;Abstract:This provocative examination of major controversies in military history enables readers to learn how scholars approach controversial topics and provides a model for students in the study and discussion of other historical events.
• Provides compelling examinations of major controversies in military history from the time of the ancient world to the modern day• Enables readers to see how historians address such topics and understand how their process could be applied to other topics or research areas
• Offers a bibliography specific to each topic to give students looking to do further research a wealth of options
Editor(s): Tucker, Spencer;SortTitle: enduring controversies in military history: critical analyses and context [2 volumes]Author Info:Spencer C. TuckereditorSpencer C. TuckerauthoreISBN-13: 9781440841200Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440841200.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440841194Imprint: ABC-CLIOPages: 992Publication Date: 20170930Table of Contents pages: 1 2
- 38. WOU LD FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN HAVE BEEN BETTER SERVED TO GO TO WAR WITH GERMANY IN 1938? 515563
- 39. WHAT WERE THE KEY FACTORS THAT LED TO THE JAPANESE DECISION TO ATTACK PEARL HARBOR? 529577
- 40. DID THE REQUIREMENT FOR UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER HELP OR HINDER THE ALLIED EFFORT IN WORLD WAR II? 547595
- 41. WAS ADOLF HITLER THE PRIMARY DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE HOLOCAUST, OR WOULD IT HAVE OCCURRED WITHOUT HIM? 556604
- 42. SHOULD THE ALLIES HAVE BOMBED AUSCHWITZ? 568616
- Background Essay 570618
- Perspective Essay 1. Allies Should Have Bombed Rail Lines 572620
- Perspective Essay 2. Bombing Auschwitz and Political Will 573621
- Perspective Essay 3. Gauging Success: What Would Bombing Auschwitz Have Accomplished? 576624
- Perspective Essay 4. Diverted Resources and Grand Strategy 578626
- 43. WERE THE AGREEMENTS REACHED AT THE YALTA CONFERENCE AN UNNECESSARY GIVEAWAY TO THE SOVIETS? 581629
- 44. WAS THE UNITED STATES JUSTIFIED IN DROPPING ATOMIC BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI? 596644
- PART VI The Cold War (1945–1991) 609657
- 45. WHICH POWER BEARS PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR STARTING THE COLD WAR, THE SOVIET UNION OR THE UNITED STATES ? 611659
- 46. HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS PREVENTED ANOTHER CATASTROPHIC WAR SINCE 1945? 632680
- 47. WHY DID THE COMMUNIST SIDE DEFEAT THE NATIONALISTS IN THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR? 645693
- 48. HOW HAS THE DEBATE OVER THE “RIGHT” TO PALESTINE SHAPED THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT? 659707
- 49. HOW SHOULD RESPONSIBILITY BE APPORTIONED FOR THE START OF THE KOREAN WAR? 669717
- 50. WAS PRESIDENT TRUMAN JUSTIFIED IN REMOVING GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR AS COMMANDER OF UNITED NATIONS FORCES DURING THE KOREAN WAR? 682730
- 51. WAS THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION JUSTIFIED IN RELYING ON MASSIVE RETALIATION AS A DEFENSIVE POSTURE IN THE 1950S? 695743
- 52. HAS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER’S WARNING ABOUT THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX COME TRUE? 710758
- 53. WAS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE TET OFFENSIVE THE PRIMARY REASON IT WAS VIEWED AS AMAJOR U.S. DEFEAT FOR THE UNITED STATES? 721769
- 54. COULD THE UNITED STATES HAVE WON THE VIETNAM WAR? 731779
- 55. WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COLD WAR? 750798
- 56. WERE RONALD REAGAN’S POLICIES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR? 760808
- PART VII The New Millennium (1991–Present ) 771819
- 57. SHOULD THE U.S.-LED COALITION HAVE REMOVED SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM POWER BEFORE ENDING THE PERSIAN GULF WAR? 773821
- 58. WAS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY JUSTIFIED IN INITIALLY AVOIDING MILITARY ACTION TO PREVENT ETHNIC CLEANSING IN BOSNIA? 789837
- 59. WAS THE 2003 U.S.-LED COALITION INVASION OF IRAQ JUSTIFIED? 801849
- 60. WAS THE U.S. GOAL OF CONSTRUCTING A STABLE, DEMOCRATIC REGIME IN POST-2003 IRAQ REALISTIC? 812860
- 61. IS IT ACCURATE TO DRAW PARALLELS BETWEEN THE CRUSADES OF THE MIDDLE AGES IN THE HOLYLAND AND THE AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ WARS OF THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY? 823871
- 62. DID POST–COLD WAR POLICIES PURSUED BY THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER NATO POWERS CONTRIBUTE TO RUSSIA’S INCREASINGLY AGGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL POLICIES IN THE 2000S? 835883
- 63. SHOULD WOMEN BE ALLOWED TO SERVE IN COMBAT POSITIONS IN THE U.S. MILITARY? 848896
- 64. SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT REINSTATE THE DRAFT? 860908
- About the Editor and Contributors 871919
- Index 901949
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