2 options
Lifting the fog of peace : how Americans learned to fight modern war / Janine Davidson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davidson, Janine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military doctrine--United States.
- Military doctrine.
- Counterinsurgency--United States.
- Counterinsurgency.
- Nation-building--United States.
- Nation-building.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- United States--Armed Forces.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Lifting the Fog of Peace, Dr. Janine Davidson explains how the American military has adapted itself to succeed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that are the most likely future face of combat. The book is informed by her experience of these wars in the Department of Defense, where she now plays a critical role in continuing the process of learning that has so visibly marked the military's performance in today's wars. Highly recommended. ---John A. Nagl, President, Center for a New American Security U.S. military officers throughout Iraq and Afghanistan spend their days worrying nearly as much about municipal power, water purification, trash collection, and jobs programs as they do about fighting the war. Although running elections, building roads, and governing cities have been perennial duties for U.S. soldiers for over 230 years, this generation has had to adapt and relearn lessons on the fly. Lifting the Fog of Peace puts the U.S. military's frustrating experiences in Iraq into context and reveals how the military was able to turn the tide during the socalled surge in 2007-8. Janine Davidson is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Plans. She has served as Director of the Department of Defense's Stability Operations Capabilities.
- Contents:
- On the front lines with America's nation builders
- Military learning and competing theories of change
- Two centuries of small wars and nation building
- Vietnam to Iraq : debating the "new world order"
- Learning to learn : the training revolution in the post-Vietnam military
- Doctrine and education for the new force
- Learning to surge in Iraq
- Learning theory and military change in the 21st century.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-88295-3
- 9786612882951
- 0-472-02298-9
- OCLC:
- 681756196
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.