Command : the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine /
Freedman, Lawrence
Command : the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine / Lawrence Freedman - UK: Penguin Random House, 2023. - xvii, 588 Pages: illustrations; 19 cm.
Command as politics -- Supreme commander : Truman and MacArthur -- The fury of the legions : the French army in Indochina and Algeria -- Keeping control : the Cuban missile crisis -- The very model of insubordination : Ariel Sharon and Israel's wars -- Civil war : the surrender of East Pakistan -- Orders from on high : responses to North Vietnam's 1972 offensive -- Command in theatre : the Falklands campaign -- Dictator as supreme commander : Saddam Hussein -- Command in a fragile state : Guevara, Kabila and the Congo -- Command in a faltering state : the Russian invasion of Chechnya -- Too many cooks : Kosovo in 1999 -- From hybrid conflict to all-out war : Russia fights Ukraine -- The war on terror : the battle of Tora Bora -- A tale of two surges : Iraq 2006-7 -- War among the people : fighting the Taliban and Isis -- Past, present and future of command.
9780141993515
Command of troops--Political aspects
Politics and War
Military History, Modern--20th Century
Military History, Modern--21st Century
UB210 / .F853 2023
Command : the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine / Lawrence Freedman - UK: Penguin Random House, 2023. - xvii, 588 Pages: illustrations; 19 cm.
Command as politics -- Supreme commander : Truman and MacArthur -- The fury of the legions : the French army in Indochina and Algeria -- Keeping control : the Cuban missile crisis -- The very model of insubordination : Ariel Sharon and Israel's wars -- Civil war : the surrender of East Pakistan -- Orders from on high : responses to North Vietnam's 1972 offensive -- Command in theatre : the Falklands campaign -- Dictator as supreme commander : Saddam Hussein -- Command in a fragile state : Guevara, Kabila and the Congo -- Command in a faltering state : the Russian invasion of Chechnya -- Too many cooks : Kosovo in 1999 -- From hybrid conflict to all-out war : Russia fights Ukraine -- The war on terror : the battle of Tora Bora -- A tale of two surges : Iraq 2006-7 -- War among the people : fighting the Taliban and Isis -- Past, present and future of command.
9780141993515
Command of troops--Political aspects
Politics and War
Military History, Modern--20th Century
Military History, Modern--21st Century
UB210 / .F853 2023