Why Nations Go To War

by Stoessinger,John G.

• ISBN13: 9780495097075
• ISBN10: 0495097071
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-23
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Transmitting an understanding of warfare from World War I to the present, WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR, a unique book and a product of reflection by author, John G. Stoessinger, is built around ten case studies, culminating in the new wars that ushered in the twenty-first century: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars between Arabs and Israelis in Gaza and in Lebanon. The distinguishing feature of the book remains the author's emphasis on the pivotal role of the personalities of leaders who take their nations, or their following, across the threshold into war.

Author Biography

Dr. John G. Stoessinger is Professor of Global Diplomacy at the University of San Diego

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iv
List of Maps	p. x
About the Author	p. xi
Introduction	p. xii
The Iron Dice	p. 3
The Kaiser's Fateful Pledge	p. 5
The Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia	p. 7
The Closing Trap	p. 11
The Iron Dice	p. 17
Conclusion	p. 23
Notes	p. 26
Selected Bibliography	p. 28
Barbarossa	p. 31
Hitler and Russia	p. 32
Stalin and Germany	p. 43
Conclusion	p. 54
Notes	p. 58
Selected Bibliography	p. 59
The Temptations of Victory: Korea	p. 63
President Truman's Decision	p. 65
General MacArthur's Gamble	p. 77
Conclusion	p. 86
Afterthoughts: Fifty Years Later	p. 88
Notes	p. 96
Selected Bibliography	p. 99
A Greek Tragedy in Five Acts: Vietnam	p. 101
Truman-Asia was not Europe	p. 102
Eisenhower-The Lesson of France Ignored	p. 106
Kennedy-The Military	p. 111
Johnson-The Catastrophe	p. 116
Nixon-Full Circle	p. 125
Conclusion	p. 129
Notes	p. 130
Selected Bibliography	p. 132
From Sarajevo to Kosovo: The War over the Remains of Yugoslavia	p. 135
The Dismemberment of Yugoslavia Begins	p. 138
The War in Bosnia	p. 141
The Tide Turns against the Serbs	p. 148
The Dayton Peace Accords	p. 150
The UN War Crimes Tribunal	p. 152
Kosovo: The War against Europe's Last Dictator	p. 156
Conclusion: A New Dawn of Peace with Justice?	p. 168
Notes	p. 171
Selected Bibliography	p. 173
Four Battles over God: India and Pakistan in 1947, 1965, 1971, 1998	p. 177
Colonialism, Partition, and War	p. 178
The Kashmir War of 1965	p. 186
The Bloody Dawn of Bangladesh	p. 190
Nuclear Viagra	p. 200
A Natural Disaster Rekindles Hope	p. 205
Fear Trumps Hope, Once Again	p. 206
Conclusion	p. 207
Notes	p. 208
Selected Bibliography	p. 209
The Sixty Years' War in the Holy Land: Israel and the Arabs	p. 213
The Palestine War of 1948	p. 214
The Sinai Campaign and the Suez Crisis of 1956	p. 224
The Six-Day War of 1967	p. 231
The October War of 1973	p. 239
The Lebanese Tragedy	p. 249
The Palestinian Uprising	p. 252
The Peace Process: Between Fear and Hope	p. 255
The Second Palestinian Uprising and the Road Map	p. 258
History Interrupted	p. 265
"Giving War a Chance:" America, Israel and Hezbollah	p. 269
Conclusion	p. 281
Notes	p. 284
Selected Bibliography	p. 285
Saddam Hussein's Wars against Iran and Kuwait	p. 289
The Iran-Iraq War: The Price of Martyrdom	p. 290
Saddam's Aggression against Kuwait	p. 296
Notes	p. 317
Selected Bibliography	p. 318
New Wars for a New Century: America and the World of Islam	p. 321
George W. Bush: From Pragmatist to Crusader	p. 324
War Drums	p. 330
The "War after the War": Dilemmas of Occupation	p. 335
The Capture of Saddam	p. 343
Mission Accomplished?	p. 347
Elections in Iraq	p. 348
The Descent into Civil War	p. 351
Law and Society Under Islam: Three Vignettes	p. 357
Afghanistan: A Resurgent Taliban	p. 357
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The Holocaust as Myth and a World without Israel	p. 360
A New Threat from Iran	p. 361
The Trial of Saddam Hussein	p. 366
Reflections on Iraq's Past and Future	p. 371
What Went Wrong?	p. 371
What Can Be Done to Set Things Right?	p. 374
Conclusion: Perils of Empire	p. 378
Notes	p. 379
Selected Bibliography	p. 381
Why Nations Go to War	p. 385
The Determinants of War	p. 387
Heart of Darkness: Rwanda and Darfur	p. 401
Learning from History	p. 407
Notes	p. 412
Selected Bibliography	p. 412
Epilogue	p. 415
Index	p. 423
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