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When the United States invaded Russia : Woodrow Wilson's Siberian disaster /
This book explores one of America's earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere. Few may remember that shortly before the end of World War I, the United States sent thousands of troops to Siberia, who remained there for a year and a half to suppress the Bolshevik Revolut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book explores one of America's earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere. Few may remember that shortly before the end of World War I, the United States sent thousands of troops to Siberia, who remained there for a year and a half to suppress the Bolshevik Revolution. The author demonstrates how the intervention ironically enabled the survival of the emerging Soviet regime and influenced subsequent Soviet-American relations. The episode also teaches valuable lessons about the extreme difficulties inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns and about the absolute need to secure widespread support on the ground if such campaigns are to achieve success, knowledge that U.S. policymakers tragically ignored in Vietnam, and later struggled to implement in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442219908 1442219904 1283834596 9781283834599 1442219890 9781442219892 |