Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars
American wars and the culture of violence
Strategic bombing in the Second World War
The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting
The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility
The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy
Iraq : the twenty years' war
Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier
Three atrocities and the rules of engagement
Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic
The epistemology of war.
The deaths of others : the fate of civilians in America's wars by John Tirman. ISBN 9780195381214. Published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.