Reviewed and debated everywhere, this book has become a key volume in the case for a new policy of interventionism.

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; Foreword to the Revised Edition; Preface: Another American Way of War; Part One: Commercial Power; 1. "To Conquer Upon the Sea": Barbary Wars, 1801-1805, 1815; 2. "Butcher and Bolt": From the Marquesas, 1813, to China, 1859; 3. Empire Emerging: From Korea, 1871, to Samoa, 1899; Part Two: Great Power; 4. Red Summer: Boxer Uprising, 1900; 5. "Attraction" and "Chastisement": The Philippine War, 1899-1902; 6. Caribbean Constabulary: Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, 1898-1914; 7. Lords of Hispaniola: Haiti, 1915-1934. Dominican Republic, 1916-19248. The Dusty Trail: The Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition, 1916-1917; 9. Blood on the Snow: Russia, 1918-1920; 10. Chasing Sandino: Nicaragua, 1926-1933; 11. "By Bluff Alone": China, 1901-1941; Part Three: Superpower; 12. Lessons Learned: The Small Wars Manual; 13. Lessons Unlearned: Vietnam, 1959-1975; 14. In the Shadow of Vietnam: The Powell Doctrine and Small Wars in the 1990s; 15. In the Shadow of 9/11: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; 16. In Defense of the Pax Americana: Small Wars in the Twenty-First Century; Afterword to the Revised Edition; Notes.