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H.W. Wilson Announces U.S. National Debate Topic 2010-2011: The American Military Presence Overseas

New Volume in the Reference Shelf Book Series

New York, NY, June 22, 2010
H.W. Wilsons popular Reference Shelf book series today released a new title that explores the subject of the 2011 U.S. National High School Policy Debate-U.S. National Debate Topic 2010–2011: The American Military Presence Overseas. The volume examines if and to what extent America should reduce its military presence around the globe, with a special focus on Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Japan and South Korea.

A National High School Policy Debate is held each year, and Wilson’s Reference Shelf series issues a book each year on the topic. Articles in U.S. National Debate Topic 2010–2011: The American Military Presence Overseas are perfect preparation for the upcoming tournament, as well as informative reading for other researchers and the general public.

Section one, “Rome Revisited? The U.S. Military Presence Around the World,” provides an overview of U.S. troop deployments internationally, and considers whether America has become an empire, as some critics contend. Section two, “Afghanistan: ‘Graveyard of Empires’?” focuses on America’s recent choice of “surge” versus withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan. The third section, “Iraq: Should We Stay or Should We Go?” explores the prudence and feasibility of the Obama plan to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by 2011. Articles in the fourth section, “Turkey: Strategic Crossroads,” highlight America’s increasingly complex relationship with a country that straddles both a literal and figurative divide between the West and the Middle East, and the site of historically coveted strategic terrain. Entries in the fifth and sixth sections: “Japan: From Article 9 to ‘Yankee Go Home’” and “South Korea: The 38th Parallel and Beyond” examine the United States’ military alliances with Japan and South Korea, and whether the U.S. presence in northeast Asia is as crucial as it was when established more than half a century ago.

U.S. National Debate Topic 2010-2011: The American Military Presence Overseas is the third title of six to be released in The Reference Shelf 2010 (Volume 82). Each book in the Reference Shelf series offers extensive exploration of a topic of importance in modern society, in a compilation of notable articles from respected publications, abstracts of 20 to 30 additional articles, and a bibliography of other sources. Volume 82 includes Robotics (February), The News and Its Future (April), U.S. National Debate Topic 2010-2011: The American Military Presence Overseas (June), Russia (August), Graphic Novels and Comic Books (October), and Representative American Speeches 2009-2010 (December). Review copies of Reference Shelf volumes are available for members of the press. For more on The Reference Shelf visit www.hwwilson.com.