Liberal wars : Anglo-American strategy, ideology, and practice

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Label

Liberal wars : Anglo-American strategy, ideology, and practice

Title remainder

Anglo-American strategy, ideology, and practice

Statement of responsibility

edited by Alan Cromartie

Contributor

• Cromartie, Alan,

Subject

• Military planning -- Great Britain
• Liberalism -- Great Britain
• Great Britain -- Strategic aspects
• United States -- Strategic aspects
• Military planning -- United States
• Liberalism -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

This book addresses the relationship between the 'liberal' values of Anglo-Saxon cultures and the way that they conduct themselves when they are fighting - or preparing to fight - wars. The United States and the United Kingdom are characterised by a consensus that their social and political arrangements are, in a very broad sense, 'liberal'. Liberalism is not pacifism; nor are liberals necessarily respectful of traditional prohibitions that have set out to moderate excessive violence. But liberals do seek to understand their violent actions as part of a wider project of defending or expanding

Member of

• Contemporary security studies

Dewey number

355/.033541

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Contemporary security studies