Why America Loses Wars

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-22086-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 559 g

How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political aims and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US political aims and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war, particularly wars fought for limited aims, taking the nation to war without understanding what they want or valuing victory and thus the ending of the war. He reveals how flawed ideas on so-called 'limited war' and war in general evolved against the backdrop of American conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. These ideas, he shows, undermined America's ability to understand, wage, and win its wars, and to secure peace. Now fully updated to incorporate the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Why America Loses Wars dismantles seventy years of misguided thinking and lays the foundations for a new approach to the wars of tomorrow.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoker, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Are We at war? What Do We want? And Do We Want to Win?; 2. The Way We Think about War (Particularly So-Called Limited War) Is Broken: Here Is How We Fix It; 3. The Political Aim: Why Nations Fight (Limited) Wars; 4. Constraints: Or Why Wars for Limited Political Aims Are So Difficult; 5. Strategy: How to Think about Fighting for a Limited Political Aim; 6. And You Thought the War Was Hard: Ending the War and Securing the Peace; Conclusion: Is History Rhyming?

Über Autor(innen)

Stoker, Donald
Donald Stoker is Professor of National Security and Resource Strategy at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School of the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He was Professor of Strategy and Policy for the US Naval War College's Monterey Program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, from 1999 until 2017. The author or editor of thirteen books, his Carl von Clausewitz: His Life and Work is on the British Army professional-reading list. His Purpose and Power: American Grand Strategy in Peace and War, 1775-2021 will be published by Cambridge University Press & Assessment in 2022.