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When soldiers fall : how Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan /

Call it the Vietnam Syndrome or Black Hawk Down blowback. It's the standard assumption that Americans won't tolerate combat casualties, that a rising body count lowers support for war. But that's not true, argues historian Steven Casey; even worse, this assumption damages democracy. F...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Casey, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Censorship and the first casualty controversy: World War I, 1917-1918 -- Bad news in the "good war": World War II, 1941-1943 -- The price of victory: World War II, 1944-1945 -- Partisanship and the police action: the Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Vietnam: the escalating war, 1961-1968 -- Vietnam: de-escalation and defeat, 1969-1989 -- Gulf Wars: Iraq and Afghanistan, 1990-2011. 
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