00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002905 20241015030121 0010-0520002905 241015################|##########0#eng## 9780415429955 eng 306.270 306.270 BUL n Buley, Benjamin New American Way of War : Military Culture and the Political Utility of Force / Benjamin Buley London : Routledge, 2008 xiii, 201p.; 24cm. ; 24cm. Indeks : p.191 - 201 p.176 - 190 The older concept of the American way of war was always associated with more than a simple penchant for strategies of annihilation. The more fundamental idea underlying this strategic of the characteristic America understending of the relationship between war and politics. By extension, the continuities and discontinuities between the 'old' and 'new' American ways of war can only be properly understood if the new style of war is also placed in the broader context of its relationship to political utility. The most enduring theme associated with the older notion that there exised a distinctively American approach to war was its alleged rejection of the conception of war as apolitical instrument. United States - Military Policy Sociology, Military - United States 10516/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10517/MKRI-P/XI-2008