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Why America loses wars : limited war and US strategy from the Korean War to the present / Donald Stoker.
LIBRA UA23 .S86 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stoker, Donald J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strategy--History--20th century.
- Strategy.
- History.
- Strategy--History--21st century.
- Strategic culture--United States--History.
- Strategic culture.
- Military planning--United States.
- Military planning.
- Politics and war.
- Military policy.
- United States.
- United States--Military policy--20th century.
- United States--Military policy--21st century.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- International relations.
- Politics and war--United States.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 331 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US policy and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war, particularly limited wars. He reveals how ideas on limited war and war in general evolved against the backdrop of American conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. These ideas, he shows, were flawed and have undermined America's ability to understand, wage, and win its wars, and to secure peace afterwards. America's leaders have too often taken the nation to war without understanding what they want or valuing victory, leading to the 'forever wars' of today. Why America Loses Wars dismantles seventy years of misguided thinking and lays the foundations for a new approach to the wars of tomorrow."--Publisher.
- Contents:
- Are we at war? What do we want? And do we want to win?
- The way we think about war (particularly limited war) is broken: here is how we fix it
- The political objective: why nations fight (limited) wars
- Constraints: or why wars for limited aims are so difficult
- Strategy: how to think about fighting for a limited political objective
- And you thought the war was hard: ending the war and securing the peace
- Conclusion: is history rhyming?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1108479596
- 9781108479592
- OCLC:
- 1076809983
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