Seeds of Victory: Defeat, Triumph, and the American Way of War

2026/02/18 by Christopher DeRosa · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #War, Ethics, and Justification #World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact #Military History and Strategy

paper · doi:10.1080/03612759.2026.2623793

openalex publication_date 2026/02/18 · openalex created_date 2026/02/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/20

Abstract

In Seeds of Victory, historian James Ellman examines a series of American battles to ask why the United States repeatedly suffered defeats at the outset of wars, and how the nation’s armed forces s...

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