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A New Kind of War: America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece

by Howard Jones

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America''s experience in Greece has often been cited as a model by those later policymakers in Washington who regard the involvement as a "victory" for American foreign policy. Indeed, President Johnson and others referred to Greece as the model for ... Read more
America''s experience in Greece has often been cited as a model by those later policymakers in Washington who regard the involvement as a "victory" for American foreign policy. Indeed, President Johnson and others referred to Greece as the model for America''s deepening involvement in Vietnamduring the mid-1960''s. Greece became the battlefield for a new kind of war--one that included the use of guerrilla warfare, propaganda, war in the shadows, terror tactics and victory based on outlasting the enemy. It was also a test before the world of America''s resolve to protect the principle ofself-determination. Jones argues that American policy towards Greece was the focal point in the development of a global strategy designed to combat totalitarianism. He also argues that had the White House and others drawn the real "lessons" from the intervention in Greece, the decisions regardingVietnam might have been more carefully thought out. Less

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File size9.13 X 5.98 X 0.94 in
Print pages360
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date March 1, 1997
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195045819
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Howard Jones
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Howard Jones is University Research Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Alabama, where he taught for thirty-nine years. He is a New York Times-bestselling author of Mutiny on the Amist...

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