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Preface | p. ix |
List of Maps | p. xi |
About the Author | p. xii |
Introduction | p. xiii |
“Rendezvous” | p. xvii |
The Iron Dice: World War I | 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. 16 |
Conclusion | p. 23 |
Notes | p. 26 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 28 |
Barbarossa: Hitler's Attack on Russia | p. 31 |
Hitler and Russia | p. 32 |
Stalin and Germany | p. 43 |
Conclusion | p. 54 |
Afterword: Seventy Years Later | p. 58 |
Notes | p. 58 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 60 |
The Temptations of Victory: Korea | p. 63 |
President Truman's Decision | p. 65 |
General Macarthur's Gamble | p. 76 |
North Korea's Brinksmanship | p. 87 |
Notes | p. 98 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 101 |
A Greek Tragedy in Five Acts: Vietnam | p. 103 |
Truman—Asia was not Europe | p. 104 |
Eisenhower—The Lesson of France Ignored | p. 108 |
Kennedy—The Military | p. 112 |
Johnson—The Catastrophe | p. 118 |
Nixon—Full Circle | p. 126 |
Conclusion | p. 130 |
Notes | p. 133 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 135 |
From Sarajevo to Kosovo: The Wars of Europe's Last Dictator | p. 137 |
The Dismemberment of Yugoslavia Begins | p. 140 |
The War in Bosnia | p. 143 |
The Tide Turns Against the Serbs | p. 149 |
The Dayton Peace Accords | p. 151 |
The UN War Crimes Tribunal | p. 153 |
Kosovo and Milosevic's Downfall | p. 157 |
Conclusion: A New Dawn of Peace with Justice? | p. 168 |
Notes | p. 172 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 174 |
In the Name of God: Hindus and Moslems in India and Pakistan | 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 |
India's 9/11: Mumbai, November 2008 | p. 207 |
Conclusion | p. 209 |
Notes | p. 210 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 212 |
The Sixty YearsÆ War in the Holy Land: Israel and the Arabs | p. 215 |
The Palestine War of 1948 | p. 216 |
The Sinai Campaign and the Suez Crisis of 1956 | p. 226 |
The Six-Day War of 1967 | p. 233 |
The October War of 1973 | p. 241 |
The Lebanese Tragedy | p. 251 |
The Palestinian Uprising | p. 254 |
The Peace Process: Between Fear and Hope | p. 257 |
The Second Palestinian Uprising and the Road Map | p. 260 |
History Interrupted | p. 266 |
“Giving War a Chance”: America, Israel, and Hezbollah | p. 270 |
War Over Gaza | p. 283 |
Conclusion | p. 284 |
Notes | p. 287 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 289 |
The War Lover: Saddam Hussein's Wars against Iran and Kuwait | p. 293 |
The Iran-Iraq War: The Price of Martyrdom | p. 294 |
Saddam's Aggression Against Kuwait | p. 299 |
Notes | p. 318 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 319 |
New Wars for a New Century: America and the World of Islam | p. 323 |
From Pragmatist to Crusader | p. 326 |
War Drums | p. 332 |
The “War After the War”: Dilemmas of Occupation | p. 337 |
The Capture of Saddam | p. 344 |
Mission Accomplished? | p. 348 |
Elections in Iraq | p. 349 |
The Descent Into Civil War | p. 351 |
Law and Society Under Islam: Three Vignettes | p. 358 |
Nato's War in Afghanistan | p. 358 |
The Iranian People's Uprising of 2009 and the Nuclear Crisis | p. 365 |
The Trial of Saddam Hussein | p. 376 |
Reflections on Iraq's Past and Future | p. 380 |
What Went Wrong? | p. 381 |
What Can be Done to Set Things Right? | p. 383 |
Conclusion: Perils of Empire | p. 390 |
Notes | p. 391 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 393 |
Why Nations Go to War | p. 396 |
The Determinants of War | p. 398 |
Heart of Darkness: Rwanda and Darfur | p. 411 |
Learning from History | p. 417 |
Notes | p. 422 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 423 |
Epilogue | p. 426 |
Index | p. 433 |
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