Thinking about grand strategy in Peace and war
The fight for sovereignty, 1775-1801
Expansion, sovereignty, and war, 1801-1817
Seeking a continent : expansion, Indian removal, and the Mexican War, 1817-1849
Schism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1849-1877
Conquering a continent : the Indian wars, 1865-1897
American empire, 1897-1913
Stepping on the global stage, 1913-1921
The interwar interlude, 1921-1939
Moving astride the world : the Second World War, 1939-1945
The hot peace and the Korean War, 1945-1953
The hot peace : the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years, 1953-1969
The Vietnam War, 1961-1969
Détente and defeat : Nixon, Ford, and Vietnam, 1969-1977
For want of a vision : the Carter Years, 1977-1981
Winning the hot peace : Reagan's great power competition, 1981-1990
The Gulf War, or first Iraq War, 1990-1991
The new world disorder : Bush and Clinton, 1991-2001
Wilsonian revolutionaries : Bush and War, 2001-2009
Retrenchment, engagement, and war : the Obama Years, 2009-2017
Retrenchment, engagement, and weakness : Trump and Biden, 2017-2022