Freedman, Lawrence, <br/><br/>
Command :  the politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine / 
 Politics of military operations from Korea to Ukraine 
Lawrence Freedman. 
 - xvii, 588 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-574) and index. 
<br/><br/>Command as politics -- Supreme commander : Truman and MacArthur -- The fury of the legions : the French army in Indochina and Algeria -- Keeping control : the Cuban missile crisis -- The very model of insubordination : Ariel Sharon and Israel's wars -- Civil war : the surrender of East Pakistan -- Orders from on high : responses to North Vietnam's 1972 offensive -- Command in theatre : the Falklands campaign -- Dictator as supreme commander : Saddam Hussein -- Command in a fragile state : Guevara, Kabila and the Congo -- Command in a faltering state : the Russian invasion of Chechnya -- Too many cooks : Kosovo in 1999 -- From hybrid conflict to all-out war : Russia fights Ukraine -- The war on terror : the battle of Tora Bora -- A tale of two surges : Iraq 2006-7 -- War among the people : fighting the Taliban and Isis -- Past, present and future of command. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780197540671 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2022943047 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Command of troops--Political aspects.<br/>Politics and war.<br/>Military history, Modern--20th century.<br/>Military history, Modern--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>UB210  / .F676 2022