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Warmongers: How Leaders and Their Unnecessary Wars Have Wrecked the Modern World
R. T. Howard
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Description for Warmongers: How Leaders and Their Unnecessary Wars Have Wrecked the Modern World
Hardback. Warmongers challenge assumptions about the value of war in the past and the present; examining major hidtorical figues and events, it will provoke discussion about when and in what circumstances force is ever really justified - pertinent at a time of ongoing war in, and war-weariness about, Syria and Afghanistan. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12. BIC Classification: HB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
In 1945, did President Truman really need to use two atomic bombs against Japan - and could he not have given Japan advance warning about the terrifying `device' his scientists had developed? After 9/11, could not President George W. Bush have targeted only Osama bin Laden instead of toppling the entire Taliban regime in Afghanistan? Why, in 2011, did David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy use military force to remove a Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, who had repeatedly offered peace talks and compromise? They were all, in their different ways, `Warmongers' who waged unnecessary wars, or used a ... Read more
In 1945, did President Truman really need to use two atomic bombs against Japan - and could he not have given Japan advance warning about the terrifying `device' his scientists had developed? After 9/11, could not President George W. Bush have targeted only Osama bin Laden instead of toppling the entire Taliban regime in Afghanistan? Why, in 2011, did David Cameron and Nicholas Sarkozy use military force to remove a Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, who had repeatedly offered peace talks and compromise? They were all, in their different ways, `Warmongers' who waged unnecessary wars, or used a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445648521
SKU
V9781445648521
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About R. T. Howard
R. T. Howard is an editor of an international magazine on intelligence issues and has written widely on defence issues for Jane's, Royal United Services Institute, IISS, The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Independent on Sunday, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, New Statesman, International Herald Tribune, The National Interest (magazine) and many ... Read more
Reviews for Warmongers: How Leaders and Their Unnecessary Wars Have Wrecked the Modern World
Excellent... Howard tells a rattling tale, full of slapstick and bloodshed...One chapter, straight from the pages of Graham Greene, recounts a duel between British spies and French officials in post-war Madagascar...The author is good on the vying power centres in Paris (and) Howard's chapter on the Falklands War is a thorough dissection of how these interest groups almost prevailed over ... Read more