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"Through case studies of communities around the world, Baker shows that the U.S. armed forces have had a surprisingly large impact both positive and negative, on the affairs of many (but not all) host societies, including economic revitalization, cultural change, and, sometimes, tragic social consequences. In more than a few cases, the U.S. military presence has become politically controversial on a national level. On the other hand, many host nations...

"Author Hart finds the crumbling adobe walls of the western forts to be virtually permeated with these rapidly being forgotten memories, and extracts them with story and picture just in time to prevent them from returning to the dust from which they came."--Inside front dust cover

Confederate force of 300 defeats 1,700 Federals near Brownsville, Texas.

A case study of decision making under pressure, this text covers the Cuban missile crisis, using the crisis as a basic frame of reference. It seeks to teach students how to compare and contrast perspectives on foreign affairs. One of the most influential political science works written in the post-World War II era, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a unique and fascinating examination of the pivotal event of the Cold War. Not simply revised,...

The sad and tragic lives of the Pendertons and the Langdons, two military couples living on an army base in the American South in the 1930s. A powerful and passionate tale is set on a southern army post --a human hell inhabited by a sexually disturbed officer, his animalistic wife, her lover, and the driven young private who forces the drama to its climax ...