Latin America's wars

by Scheina, Robert L.

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Title Statements

Full title :Latin America's wars. / Robert L. Scheina.

Summary

Despite the pivotal role of wars in U.S. history, few in the United States understand the effect of war elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere. This second volume in Robert L. Scheina's definitive study of Latin American military describes how during the twentieth century Latin America's military professionals have not only bravely defended their own homelands from foreign enemies but have also gone abroad to fight in both world wars and in the Korean War. This groundbreaking and thorough.

Work covers all types of internal and external military activity, including wars of conquest, terrorism, revolutions, coups, border disputes, class conflicts, and civil unrest. He focuses on operational history in the context of war as an instrument of politics and society, including insightful analyses of the military as an institution and of its relations with civilian government. An invaluable resource, Latin America's Wars provides a much-needed addition to the literature, broadens.

U.S. readers' understanding of their neighbors, and serves as a point of departure for new scholarship. Book jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2003.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brassey's
Place of Publication:Dulles, VA
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2003.

The Physical Object

Description:xxvi, 530 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1574884522, 9781574884524
oclc:ocm53078537
LC Classification:F1413
Dewey Decimal:355/.0098

Subjects

Amérique latine -- Histoire militaire -… Caudillos Caudillos -- Histoire -- 19e siècle. --… Caudillos -- History -- 19th century. -… History Latin America Latin America -- History, Military -- 1… Military history