03251nam 2200709 a 450 991046011020332120200520144314.00-19-025237-51-283-09916-097866130991670-19-970099-0(CKB)2670000000083491(EBL)694057(OCoLC)726735448(SSID)ssj0000521907(PQKBManifestationID)12162270(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521907(PQKBWorkID)10522792(PQKB)10037245(StDuBDS)EDZ0000996859(MiAaPQ)EBC694057(Au-PeEL)EBL694057(CaPaEBR)ebr10469429(CaONFJC)MIL309916(EXLCZ)99267000000008349120101118d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe deaths of others[electronic resource] the fate of civilians in America's wars /John TirmanOxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20111 online resource (417 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-993401-0 0-19-538121-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.Americans are greatly concerned about the number of our troops killed in battle--100,000 dead in World War I; 300,000 in World War II; 33,000 in the Korean War; 58,000 in Vietnam; 4,500 in Iraq; over 1,000 in Afghanistan--and rightly so. But why are we so indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number of casualties suffered by those we fight and those we fight for? This is the compelling, largely unasked question John Tirman answers in The Deaths of Others. Between six and seven million people died in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq alone, the majority of them civilians. And yet Americans deCivilians in warBattle casualtiesWar and societyUnited StatesMilitarismUnited StatesUnited StatesHistory, Military20th centuryUnited StatesHistory, Military21st centuryUnited StatesMilitary policyUnited StatesForeign public opinionElectronic books.Civilians in war.Battle casualties.War and societyMilitarism355.00973Tirman John901859MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460110203321The deaths of others2295720UNINA