War Over Kosovo

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-12483-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale.

What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for humanitarian purposes? Does the precedent set by intervention of this type point toward peace and stability or toward more war? How well suited are the United States military and American society as a whole to the security challenges of the age of globalization?

According to Bacevich and Cohen, gauging the "success" achieved in Kosovo yields important answers to these and related questions. The volume includes a well-crafted historical overview of the war and six essays that place it in a broader context. The contributors explore the conflict's relationship to U.S. grand strategy, the Revolution in Military Affairs, and American civil-military relations, among other topics.

Contributors: William A. Arkin, Andrew J. Bacevich, Eliot A. Cohen, Alberto R. Coll, James Kurth, Anatol Lieven, Michael Vickers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bacevich, Andrew

Cohen, Eliot

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, by Andrew J. Bacevich and Eliot A. CohenOperation Allied Force: "The Most Precise Application of Air Power in History", by William M. ArkinKosovo and the New American Way of War, by Eliot A. CohenFirst War of the Global Era: Kosovo and U.S. Grand Strategy, by James KurthHubris and Nemesis: Kosovo and the Pattern of Western Military Ascendancy and Defeat, by Anatol LievenKosovo and the Moral Burdens of Power, by Alberto R. CollNeglected Trinity: Kosovo and the Crisis in U.S. Civil-Military Relations, by Andrew J. BacevichKosovo and the Revolution in Military Affairs, by Michael G. VickersA Note on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University where he also serves as director of the university's Center for International Relations. He is the author of The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army Between Korea and Vietnam.Eliot Cohen is professor of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, where he is also the founding director of the Center for Strategic Education. He is the coauthor of Revolution in Warfare?: Air Power in the Persian Gulf.