Russell Crandall: 3 books
Gunboat Democracy
U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
In this balanced and thought-provoking study, Russell Crandall examines the American decision to intervene militarily in three key episodes in American foreign policy: the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama. Drawing upon previously classified intelligence sources and interviews with policymakers,...
America's Dirty Wars
Irregular Warfare from 1776 to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This book examines the long, complex experience of American involvement in irregular warfare. It begins with the American Revolution in 1776 and chronicles big and small irregular wars for the next two and a half centuries. What is readily apparent in dirty wars is that failure is painfully tangible...
The Salvador Option
The United States in El Salvador, 1977–1992
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
El Salvador's civil war between the Salvadoran government and Marxist guerrillas erupted into full force in early 1981 and endured for eleven bloody years. Unwilling to tolerate an advance of Soviet and Cuban-backed communism in its geopolitical backyard, the US provided over six billion dollars in...