The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot

The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power

Max Boot

464 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary ...

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