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The second volume in Robert Scheina's
definitive study of Latin American military history draws upon
years of extensive research and teaching in the field. Although
wags in the United States have quipped that if Latin America's
military forces were not constantly seeking political power they
would have nothing to do, Scheina describes how these men have not
only bravely defended their own homelands from foreign enemies but
have also gone abroad to fight in both world wars and in the Korean
War. This groundbreaking volume also examines the numerous U.S.
interventions in Latin America during the twentieth century and the
various motivations for them, ranging from the petty interests of
influential North American businesses to global concerns with grand
strategy which, for example, resulted in the building of the Panama
Canal. Scheina concludes by exploring the role of Latin America in
the Cold War and Colombia's ongoing conflict with the drug cartels.
He focuses on operational history in the context of war as an
instrument of politics and society, including insightful analyses
of the military as an institution and of its relations with
civilian government. LATIN AMERICA'S WARS fills a void in the
literature, broadens U.S. readers' understanding of their
neighbors, and serves as a point of departure for new scholarship.
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