America's Military Adversaries

America's Military Adversaries
Author: John C. Fredriksen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 621
Release: 2001
Genre: Enemies
ISBN: 9789791576079

Chronicles the lives and dubious accomplishments of over 200 leading and lesser-known enemies--those who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces.

A Search for Enemies

A Search for Enemies
Author: Ted Galen Carpenter
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780932790958

America's Military Adversaries

America's Military Adversaries
Author: John C. Fredriksen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 636
Release: 2001-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1576076040

This work chronicles the lives and accomplishments of over 200 enemies who have fought, plotted, spied on, and in some instances defeated U.S. forces over the past three centuries. Books on American military heroes abound. But this book is the first to focus on America's talented enemies—the generals, admirals, Indian chiefs and warriors, submarine captains, fighter pilots, and spies who opposed the United States with military force or other means. Often these military leaders were among the best minds of their times. For more than two centuries, the new nation's most constant military opponents were the Native Americans, led by such capable chiefs as American Horse and Little Wolf. Under D'Iberville, Canada's French colonialists became formidable foes, but they were soon surpassed by the rigorously disciplined redcoats of Great Britain under Howe and Cornwallis. Ironically, the most effective enemies in the history of the United States were not the leaders of foreign military forces—like Mexico's Santa Anna, Japan's Yamamoto, or Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap. They arose from among its own citizens during the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history.

The Adversaries

The Adversaries
Author: Michael Balfour
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2022-12-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000805026

The Adversaries (1981) examines the post-war world that both the US and the Soviet Union tried to mould in their own images. Their faith in their respective systems came at the cost of a political, economic and military clashing in various parts of the world, an antagonism that rendered the United Nations ineffective as an organ of world government. This book analyses these clashes, as the foreign policy decisions of both superpowers had wide-ranging effects over large portions of the globe.

Allies and Adversaries

Allies and Adversaries
Author: Mark A. Stoler
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2004-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807862304

During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies. Organized soon after Pearl Harbor as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, these individuals were officially responsible only for the nation's military forces. During the war their functions came to encompass a host of foreign policy concerns, however, and so powerful did the military voice become on those issues that only the president exercised a more decisive role in their outcome. Drawing on sources that include the unpublished records of the Joint Chiefs as well as the War, Navy, and State Departments, Mark Stoler analyzes the wartime rise of military influence in U.S. foreign policy. He focuses on the evolution of and debates over U.S. and Allied global strategy. In the process, he examines military fears regarding America's major allies--Great Britain and the Soviet Union--and how those fears affected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies, interservice and civil-military relations, military-academic relations, and postwar national security policy as well as wartime strategy.

Military Coercion and US Foreign Policy

Military Coercion and US Foreign Policy
Author: Melanie W. Sisson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100005683X

This book examines the use of military force as a coercive tool by the United States, using lessons drawn from the post-Cold War era (1991–2018). The volume reveals that despite its status as sole superpower during the post-Cold War period, US efforts to coerce other states failed as often as they succeeded. In the coming decades, the United States will face states that are more capable and creative, willing to challenge its interests and able to take advantage of missteps and vulnerabilities. By using lessons derived from in-depth case studies and statistical analysis of an original dataset of more than 100 coercive incidents in the post-Cold War era, this book generates insight into how the US military can be used to achieve policy goals. Specifically, it provides guidance about the ways in which, and the conditions under which, the US armed forces can work in concert with economic and diplomatic elements of US power to create effective coercive strategies. This book will be of interest to students of US national security, US foreign policy, strategic studies and International Relations in general.

Irregular Enemies and the Essence of Strategy: Can the American Way of War Adapt?

Irregular Enemies and the Essence of Strategy: Can the American Way of War Adapt?
Author: Colin S. Gray
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2012-08-04
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 130005168X

Strategist Colin Gray offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way" and the kind of behavior that is most effective in countering irregular foes. The author poses the question, "Can the American way of war adapt to a strategic threat context dominated by irregular enemies?" He suggests that the answer is "perhaps, but only with difficulty."

The Power to Coerce

The Power to Coerce
Author: David C. Gompert
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0833090615

Mounting costs, risks, and public misgivings of waging war are raising the importance of U.S. power to coerce (P2C). The best P2C options are financial sanctions, support for nonviolent political opposition to hostile regimes, and offensive cyber operations. The state against which coercion is most difficult and risky is China, which also happens to pose the strongest challenge to U.S. military options in a vital region.

The National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015

The National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781457863349

Since the previous National Military Strategy (2011_, global disorder has significantly increased while some of our comparative military advantage has begun to erode. We now face multiple, simultaneous security challenges from traditional state actors and transregional networks of sub-state groups -- all taking advantage of rapid technological change. This 2015 National Military Strategy describes how the U.S. will employ our military forces to protect and advance our national interests. We must be able to rapidly adapt to new threats while maintaining comparative advantage over traditional ones. Future conflicts will come more rapidly, last longer, and take place on a much more technically challenging battlefield. Success will increasingly depend on how well our military instrument can support the other instruments of power and enable our network of allies and partners. Figures. This is a print on demand report.