John Gentry

How Wars are Won and Lost

Vulnerability and Military Power

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Produktbeschreibung

This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucial-and embarrassing-question concerning the U.S. military: why the United States is so often stymied in military confrontations with seemingly weaker opponents, despite its "superpower" status. This fascinating book examines a question that continues to puzzle soldiers, statesmen, and scholars: why do major powers-including the ostensible superpower United States-repeatedly perform poorly against seemingly overmatched adversaries? And what can they, and the United States, do to better achieve their military objectives? How Wars are Won and Lost: Vulnerability and Military Power argues that beyond relying solely on overwhelming military might, the United States needs to focus more on exploiting weaknesses in their adversaries-such as national will, resource mobilization, and strategic miscues-just as opposing forces have done to gain advantage over our military efforts. The author tests the "vulnerability theory" by revisiting six conflicts from the Philippine War of 1899-1902 to the ongoing actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, showing again and again that victory often depends more on outthinking the enemy than outmuscling them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780313395826
• ISBN-10: 0313395829
• Artikelnr.: 33612201

Autorenporträt

John Gentry, a humorist poet, lives and writes in Ojai, California. He is retired after some 40 years in public and private education, the U.S. Navy and various other occupations and travels. In what he calls 'this age of rhyme and meterless free verse' he continues his efforts to reverse the literary trends of the present and revive the days when a widely acclaimed poem was determined by how many non-poet readers memorized and shared its lines, rather than by the number of poetry journal editors handing out awards for it. He is in his 89th year in 2023 and is no kind of victim or perpetrator as found in the pages of this book. Comments welcome at [e-mail]

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 The Philippine War of 1899
1902 3 The Allied Bomber Offensive against Germany (1943
1945) 4 The United States in Vietnam (1961
1975) 5 NATO's War against Yugoslavia (1999) 6 The U.S. War in Iraq (2003
2011) 7 The U.S. War in Afghanistan (2001
?) 8 Summary and Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index