TY - BOOK AU - BUILDER Carl H TI - The masks of war: American military styles in strategy and analysis SN - 0801837766 (pbk.) PY - 1989/// CY - Baltimore, Md., USA PB - John Hopkins University Press KW - ARMED FORCES KW - DEFENCE POLICY KW - DOCTRINE KW - STRATEGY KW - UNITED STATES N2 - Focusing on inter-service rivalries the author examines the nature of American defence policy and strategy and asks why the U.S. military so often seems unprepared for the types of war which they have actually had to fight ER -