Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook611 pages7 hours
America's Modern Wars
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. With only two exceptions—Panama and the Gulf War under the first President Bush—our campaigns have taken on the character of endless slogs without positive results. This fascinating book takes a ground-up look at the problem in order to assess how our strategic objectives have recently become divorced from our true capability, or imperatives.
The book presents a unique examination of the nature of insurgencies and the three major guerrilla wars the United States has fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. It is both a theoretical work and one that applies the hard experience of the last five decades to address the issues of today. As such, it also provides a timely and meaningful discussion of America’s current geopolitical position.
It starts with the previously close-held casualty estimate for Iraq that The Dupuy Institute compiled in 2004 for the U.S. Department of Defense. Going from the practical to the theoretical, it then discusses a construct for understanding insurgencies and the contexts in which they can be fought. It applies these principles to Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, assessing where the projection of U.S. power can enhance our position and where it merely weakens it.
It presents an extensive analysis of insurgencies based upon a unique database of 83 post-WWII cases. The book explores what is important to combat and what is not important to resist in insurgencies. As such, it builds a body of knowledge based upon a half-century’s worth of real-world data, with analysis, not opinion. In these pages, Christopher A. Lawrence, the President of The Dupuy Institute, provides an invaluable guide to how the U.S. can best project its vital power, while avoiding the missteps of the recent past.
The book presents a unique examination of the nature of insurgencies and the three major guerrilla wars the United States has fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. It is both a theoretical work and one that applies the hard experience of the last five decades to address the issues of today. As such, it also provides a timely and meaningful discussion of America’s current geopolitical position.
It starts with the previously close-held casualty estimate for Iraq that The Dupuy Institute compiled in 2004 for the U.S. Department of Defense. Going from the practical to the theoretical, it then discusses a construct for understanding insurgencies and the contexts in which they can be fought. It applies these principles to Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, assessing where the projection of U.S. power can enhance our position and where it merely weakens it.
It presents an extensive analysis of insurgencies based upon a unique database of 83 post-WWII cases. The book explores what is important to combat and what is not important to resist in insurgencies. As such, it builds a body of knowledge based upon a half-century’s worth of real-world data, with analysis, not opinion. In these pages, Christopher A. Lawrence, the President of The Dupuy Institute, provides an invaluable guide to how the U.S. can best project its vital power, while avoiding the missteps of the recent past.
Unavailable
Read more from Christopher A. Lawrence
The Battle of Prokhorovka: The Climactic Tank Battle at Kursk, the Largest Clash of Armor in History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5America's Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to America's Modern Wars
Related ebooks
America's Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCleveland in World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTuskegee Airmen: Dogfighting with the Luftwaffe and Jim Crow Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFor Their Honor: How The D-Day Prayer was added to the World War II Memorial Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWorld War II Massachusetts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt His Side: The Story of the American Red Cross Overseas in World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOutsourced Empire: How Militias, Mercenaries, and Contractors Support US Statecraft Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Viking Battalion: Norwegian American Ski Troopers in World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAwaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn This Day: Volume One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen Vibrations Cease Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOperation Wappen: A War That Never Was Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCounterinsurgency: Theory and Reality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWitness to Neptune’s Inferno: The Pacific War Diary of Lieutenant Commander Lloyd M. Mustin, USS Atlanta (CL 51) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Tuskegee Airmen: Freedom Flyers of World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Few: The Return of the Marines, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDearborn Co, IN: Pictorial History Volume 2, 1940-1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn the Shadows Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWilly Victor and 25 Knot Hole Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe American Character: Forty Lives that Define Our National Spirit Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDonovan: America's Master Spy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Understanding Primary Sources: Recollections of Combat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNight of the Hawk Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Command Is Forward Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMilitary Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Those Gentle Heroes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArmchair Warriors: Private Citizens, Popular Press, and the Rise of American Power Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary of The 33 Strategies of War: by Robert Greene - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe History of the Peloponnesian War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for America's Modern Wars
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews