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America's Splendid Little Wars: A Short History of U.S. Military Engagements, 1975-2000. By Peter Huchthausen. New York: Viking, 2003. ISBN O-670-03232-8. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xv, 254. $25.95.
Arguing that there are no studies that encompass the full spectrum of American military experience since the end of the Vietnam War, Peter Huchthausen, a retired naval officer with extensive foreign service experience, attempts to rectify this omission in America's Splendid Little Wars. Author of several books on military affairs, he is best known for K19: The Widow-maker about a Soviet submarine. In Splendid Little Wars, Huchthausen describes fifteen separate examples of America's employment of military force; from the recovering the SS Mayaguez in 1975 through the Kosovo crisis of 1999. This book was fun to read and provides members of the...