When the United States invaded Russia : Woodrow Wilson's Siberian disaster / Carl J. Richard.

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Richard, Carl J

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781442219908
1442219904
1283834596
9781283834599
1442219890
9781442219892

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: When the United States invaded RussiaDDC classification:

947.084/1 23

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DK265.42.U5

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Contents:

The War to End All Wars -- The Shadow of a Plan -- Walking on Eggs Loaded with Dynamite -- To Make the World Safe for Democracy -- In Search of a Russian Policy -- Hard Times, Come Again No More.

Summary: This book explores one of America's earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere. Few may remember that shortly before the end of World War I, the United States sent thousands of troops to Siberia, who remained there for a year and a half to suppress the Bolshevik Revolution. The author demonstrates how the intervention ironically enabled the survival of the emerging Soviet regime and influenced subsequent Soviet-American relations. The episode also teaches valuable lessons about the extreme difficulties inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns and about the absolute need to secure widespread support on the ground if such campaigns are to achieve success, knowledge that U.S. policymakers tragically ignored in Vietnam, and later struggled to implement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.

The War to End All Wars -- The Shadow of a Plan -- Walking on Eggs Loaded with Dynamite -- To Make the World Safe for Democracy -- In Search of a Russian Policy -- Hard Times, Come Again No More.

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This book explores one of America's earliest counterinsurgency campaigns outside the Western Hemisphere. Few may remember that shortly before the end of World War I, the United States sent thousands of troops to Siberia, who remained there for a year and a half to suppress the Bolshevik Revolution. The author demonstrates how the intervention ironically enabled the survival of the emerging Soviet regime and influenced subsequent Soviet-American relations. The episode also teaches valuable lessons about the extreme difficulties inherent in counterinsurgency campaigns and about the absolute need to secure widespread support on the ground if such campaigns are to achieve success, knowledge that U.S. policymakers tragically ignored in Vietnam, and later struggled to implement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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