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

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List of Maps	p. IX
Preface: Another American Way of War	p. XIII
Commercial Power
"To Conquer Upon the Sea": Barbary Wars, 1801-1805, 1815	p. 3
"Butcher and Bolt": From the Marquesas, 1813, to China, 1859	p. 30
Empire Emerging: From Korea, 1871, to Samoa, 1899	p. 56
Great Power
Red Summer: Boxer Uprising, 1900	p. 69
"Attraction" and "Chastisement": The Philippine War, 1899-1902	p. 99
Caribbean Constabulary: Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, 1898-1914	p. 129
Lords of Hispaniola: Haiti, 1915-1934; Dominican Republic, 1916-1924	p. 156
The Dusty Trail: The Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition, 1916-1917	p. 182
Blood on the Snow: Russia, 1918-1920	p. 205
Chasing Sandino: Nicaragua, 1926-1933	p. 231
"By Bluff Alone": China, 1901-1941	p. 253
Superpower
Lessons Learned: The Small Wars Manual	p. 281
Lessons Unlearned: Vietnam, 1959-1975	p. 286
In the Shadow of Vietnam: The Powell Doctrine and Small Wars in the 1990s	p. 318
In Defense of the Pax Americana: Small Wars in the Twenty-First Century	p. 336
Notes	p. 353
Bibliography	p. 387
Acknowledgments	p. 409
Index	p. 411
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