Persian Gulf War (America at War) - Hardcover

Rodney P. Carlisle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816049424 ISBN 13: 9780816049424

Publisher: Facts on File Inc, 2003

Synopsis

The Persian Gulf War was the first war that the United States officially involved itself in as a combatant after Vietnam. It was a war in which many new technological, strategic, political, and economic elements came together for the first time, making the war a particularly unique experience for American soldiers and those at home. Not only was the United States involved, but so were many other countries of diverse political and social backgrounds, all working together under the aegis of the Coalition. The United States played a key, leading role in funding, organizing, building, and maintaining the partnerships of the Coalition that made the war against Iraq so startlingly successful in many people's eyes. Persian Gulf War is an important new volume in the American at War series. It brings the series coverage into the 1990s, and it shows how the war has affected policies and attitudes toward military involvement in foreign countries in every echelon of American society. Perhaps equally important is that this volume engages the reader to consider what war means today, in post-cold war modern American society. Persian Gulf War is a great reference for students, teachers, war historians, war history enthusiasts, and anyone interested in modern U.S. history.

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About the Author:

Rodney P. Carlisle earned a B.A. (cum laude) in history from Harvard and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former chair of the history department at Rutgers University, Camden, where he taught for more than 30 years, specializing in 20th-century history, in particular military history. Carlisle is now professor emeritus there. He has written many articles and more than 30 books on history, including Facts On File's Encyclopedia of the Atomic Age and Iraq War and Afghanistan War in Chelsea House's America at War set. His most recent work is Sovereignty at Sea: U.S. Merchant Ships and American Entry into World War I.

About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0816049424
• ISBN 13: 9780816049424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176