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Author Tirman, John.

Title The deaths of others : the fate of civilians in America's wars / John Tirman.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (408 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.
Summary Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; over 1,000 in Afghanistan--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers in The Deaths of Others. Between six and seven million people died in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq alone, the majority of them civilians. And yet Americans de.
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Subject United States -- History, Military -- 20th century.
United States.
History, Military.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject United States -- History, Military -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject United States -- Military policy.
Military policy.
Civilians in war.
Civilians in war.
Battle casualties.
Battle casualties.
War and society -- United States.
War and society.
Militarism -- United States.
Militarism.
United States -- Foreign public opinion.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Military history.
Other Form: Print version: Tirman, John. Deaths of others. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011 9780195381214 (DLC) 2010046707 (OCoLC)671709679
ISBN 9780199700998 (electronic book)
0199700990 (electronic book)
1283099160
9781283099165
9780195381214 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
0195381211 (hardback ; acid-free paper)