War Over Kosovo: Politics and Strategy in a Global Age

by Andrew J. Bacevich and Eliot A. Cohen

Book Overview

More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale.

What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for humanitarian purposes? Does the precedent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023112483X
• ISBN13: 9780231124836
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher