NP? America imperialism - book review

[Doug Millison]

http://www.policyreview.org/AUG02/london.html

"And as Max Boot’s book makes clear, our most recent
small war in Afghanistan is closer to our historical
norm than the Civil War, Korea, or either of the world
wars. The U.S. has patrolled and fought undeclared
wars and engaged in military interventions in the
Marquesas Islands, Samoa, Korea, China, the
Philippines, Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti,
the Dominican Republic, Russia, Grenada, Somalia, the
former Yugoslavia, and across North Africa. (In 1882
in Alexandria, Egypt, “American sailors and marines .
. . [became] the first foreign troops to enter the
city center.”) Indeed, “between 1800 and 1934,” Boot
informs us, “us Marines staged 180 landings abroad.
The army and navy added a few small-scale engagements
of their own. Some of these excursions resulted in
heavy casualties; others involved almost no fighting.
Some were concluded in a day or two; others dragged on
for decades. Some were successful, others not.” What
ties them all together, however, is their largely
imperial nature, and through them Boot tries to
chronicle the political course of American Empire."

from a review of
Max Boot.
The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of
American Power.
Basic Books. 428 pages. $27.50




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