Ruses for War


American Interventionism Since World War II

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By John B. Quigley
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ohn Quigley (Columbus, OH) is President's Club Professor in Law at the Michael E. Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University. He is the author of many books on international law and foreign policy, including most recently The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis.

List of Abbreviations; Preface to the Second Edition; Secrets of Government; How It Began; Korea: Whose War?; Korea: The Russians Are Coming; Korea: The Chinese Hordes; Guatemala: Deception and Timing; Indonesia: Caught in a Coconut Tree; Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan: Cokes on the Beach; Cuba: We Were Not Involved; Laos A Free-Fire Zone; Vietnam: What Were Those Bleeps?; The Congo: Trouble Out East; The Congo: Another Cuba?; The Dominican Republic: Bullets in the Embassy Window; The Dominican Republic: Seeing Red; Cambodia: Fish in the Craters; Angola: A Global Monroe Doctrine; Shaba: A Congolese Reprise; Iran: Hostages Will Die; Nicaragua: Who is Contra?; El Salvador: A Textbook Case; Lebanon: Death on the Beach; Grenada: An Ocean Venture; Grenada: Saving Our Students; Grenada: The Cubans Were Ferocious; Libya: Qaddafi's Air Conditioner; The Philippines: Shoring Cory; Panama: Slaying a Monster; Panama: Explaining Why; Liberia: Just in Case; Iraq: Blood for Oil?; Somalia: Blackhawk Down; Baghdad: Missiles with a Message; Sudan: Pharmaceutical Fiasco; Iraq: Low-Intensity Intervention; Kosovo: Credibility Above All; Afghanistan: End to Terror?; Iraq: Regime Change; Why Not Tell the Truth?; Why Intervene at All?; Won't the Media Protect Us?; Won't Congress Protect Us?; Interventions of the Future; The Price of Fraudulent Intervention.

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""Quigley writes with intellectual fire." -The Washington Post "Quigley's extensive survey of American policy is a most valuable resource for anyone interested in testing America's foreign policy claims against historical record." Ludwig von Mises Institute Web site

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