From Hitlers Germany to Saddams Iraq - The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War Silverstone Scott A.Pevná vazba
This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of preventive war. Beginning with the rise of German power and the French and British response to the Rhineland crisis leading to World…
Specifikacia From Hitlers Germany to Saddams Iraq - The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War Silverstone Scott A.Pevná vazba
This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of preventive war. Beginning with the rise of German power and the French and British response to the Rhineland crisis leading to World War II, Scott Silverstone overturns the common impulse to point an accusing finger at British leadership for its alleged na vet , willful blindness, or outright cowardice. Arguing against the belief that Britain could have contained Germany and avoided war if it had used force when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, the author uses this dramatic event to wrestle with a general strategic problem that has broad relevance for our current foreign policy dilemmas. Silverstone argues that the Rhineland crisis is a critical case for studying a central dynamic of world history--power shifts among states--and the preventive war temptation that power shifts frequently produce. There has been surging