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Author:	Max Boot
Subcategory:	Politics & Government
Language:	English
Publisher:	Basic Books; Reprint edition (May 29, 2003)
Pages:	464 pages
Category:	Politics
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Max Boot's book the Savage Wars of Peace is chock full of fascinating information about America's history of. .A compendium of American wars that rarely make it to the popular history books

Max Boot's book the Savage Wars of Peace is chock full of fascinating information about America's history of small wars, fought overseas without the serious attention of the nation. Sound familiar? It should. A compendium of American wars that rarely make it to the popular history books. Don't you remember the 19th century attempt by a US Navy captain to capture the Marquesas and make them a State? No?

Start by marking The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars . The first part of the book stresses America's naval history and the navy as an arm of American policy and interests.

Start by marking The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. Ask the average American what wars we fought and you'll get the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Gulf Wars, and Afghanistan. Its rise from six ships commissioned in 1794, (a privileged officer corps, and dregs, foreigners and a high percentage of blacks making the the enlisted ranks) to a premiere navy with an elite amphibious infantry force.

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America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity . Boot re-examines the tragedy of Vietnam through a "small war" prism

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Los Angeles TimesAmerica's "small wars," "imperial war," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Along the way he sketches colorful portraits of little-known military heroes such as Stephen Decatur, "Fighting Fred" Funston, and Smedly Butler.

com User, April 22, 2002. A very well-written history of America's small-scale conflicts that should warm any soldier's-or (especially) Marine's- heart.

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America s "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power

America s "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power.

America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary Pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Along the way he sketches colorful portraits of little-known military heroes such as Stephen Decatur, "Fighting Fred" Funston, and Smedley Butler. From 1800 to the present day, such undeclared wars have made up the vast majority of our military engagements. Yet the military has often resisted preparing itself for small wars, preferring instead to train for big conflicts that seldom come. Boot re-examines the tragedy of Vietnam through a "small war" prism. He concludes with a devastating critique of the Powell Doctrine and a convincing argument that the armed forces must reorient themselves to better handle small-war missions, because such clashes are an inevitable result of America's far-flung imperial responsibilities.

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Zicelik

Max Boot presents a well balanced and thorough discussion of America's small wars throughout the history of the Republic. His arguments that small wars are the norm, can lead to stability in other nations if we make long-term commitments like the Marshal Plan, and can prevent small conflicts from becoming large ones have stood the test of time over the first two tumultuous decades of the 21st Century. Wish I had read it when it was first published in the early 2000s and I was being deployed worldwide. It would have provided a degree of historical perspective that would have eased some of my doubts about U.S. interventions.

Cerekelv

Max Boot is a Neoconservative, but don't let that stop you from taking this book seriously. In this book argues that the affairs at Omaha Beach and Gettysburg are aberrations, flukes, exceptional events in warfare.

The most common form of war is insurgency. An insurgency is a conflict which takes place between a stronger force-normally the organized government or an imperial power and a smaller bunch, typically an oppressed ethnic group or conquered people. Insurgency's don't get 'won' instead they linger on, often for decades. It is best described as a crime fighting war.

Boot describes insurgencies that the United States faced in the past that are outside the American experience with Indian Insurgencies. He thus focuses on the Regulars-especially the United States Marine Corps and their far flung story. He brings to life obscure action-China in the 1920s, the American occupation of Veracruz, the anti-Bolshevik defense of Arkhangelsk, Russia.

It should be read by every member of the military.

Manris

Max Boot's book the Savage Wars of Peace is chock full of fascinating information about America's history of small wars, fought overseas without the serious attention of the nation. Sound familiar? It should. Mr. Boot wrote the book with the intention to educate people that our current situations overseas are not exactly unique in our history. He succeeds quite well. What's more, he's able to, by drawing on history, provide some insights into what should work and what won't work in our ongoing wars against fundamentalist Islam.

The book is broken down in rough chronological order and by region of the world. It goes from the famous conflicts, such as the fight against the Barbary pirates (... to the shores of Tripoli ... from the Marine Corps hymn) to the obscure, our fights in Nicaragua (which I'd never heard about before). In between are other events that aren't covered in a lot history books, our attempts at the overthrow of the Soviets during World War I in Archangel and our part in the fights in China during the Boxer Rebellion are just a couple of examples.

Throughout the book, the writing is interesting and facts are riveting. The lessons learned and lost by our military are recounted at length. For some, who may not be students of this type of history, many of these lessons might be a bit surprising. For others, the lessons could be a reinforcement of beliefs held without good information to back them up. Regardless, readers should come away with an education into America's rich history of involvement in the small and nasty wars overseas during the last two hundred years.

JOIN

Max Boot wrote an intriguing book that should have been read by more powerful people than it was. I believe Savage Wars was released in about 2002, and since Boot is well known as a conservative commentator, I don't understand why the book and its lessons were not better appreciated by like-minded folks in the White House prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Boot makes a compelling case that there are humongous difficulties in dealing with nation-building and counterinsurgency warfare, and Boot makes that case by looking back at the many small wars the American military has engaged in. Even when those engagements were handled well, they were extremely difficult affairs that involved hardships for the troops, time, and a savvy for far more than just military matters (bureaucracy, diplomacy, and all aspects of running governments). Lessons all unlearned for the first couple of years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Better days have come for the US's efforts in Iraq, but Boot's book should have made it far more obvious what the US was in for. His chapter on the Philippines is incredibly important.
Another overall theme of Boot's book is that America's supposed "way of war," which involves involvement in huge wars, is not really the American way of war. Rather, the US has spent far more time engaged in small wars, which have also helped establish an American empire of sorts. An empire quite different than many that have existed before it and, according to Boot, better than its predecessors.
Well worth the read. Fine book with great snapshots of some hero worship worthy military folks from America's past.

Ance

A compendium of American wars that rarely make it to the popular history books. Don't you remember the 19th century attempt by a US Navy captain to capture the Marquesas and make them a State? No? Well, surely you remember our incursions into China in the same century. How about the guerilla war we fought in the Philippines? Or the US Marines' mostly successful efforts to impose law and order on several Caribbean countries? General Westmoreland didn't either, which is why Vietnam was a fiasco.

If the examples I mentioned are a little vague to you--or perhaps you never heard of them--you might find this an interesting treatment of an aspect of American history.

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