Prologue: 1865-1889 : America grows and changes, as do its old foreign, Army, and naval policies -- Samoa, 1889 : how a hurricane built US battleships--and a military-industrial complex -- Appendix: Excerpts from Secretary of Navy report, 1889 -- Hawaiian "revolution" with an American gunboat -- Venezuela, 1895 : Great Britain vs. the United States, with a little help from the Kaiser -- Spanish-American War, 1898 : how a war to liberate Cuba created a worldwide empire -- Appendix: 1898 messages to George Dewey prior to Spanish-American War -- Philippines, 1899-1902 : America's first overseas guerrilla war and the ideas that won it -- Venezuela, 1902-1903 : the Roosevelt corollary, big stick or big bluff? -- Panama revolution, 1903 : taking Panama or taking advantage in Panama? and Cuba too -- Appendix: Panamanian incidents, 1850-1902 -- Japan, 1904-1908 : the rise of Japan and the Great White Fleet; US Navy vs. the Japanese Navy? -- Appendix A: The Great White Fleet -- Appendix B: Capital ships Japanese fleet -- Nicaragua, 1912 : $ diplomacy : US Marines + US |