Donald Stoker

Why America Loses Wars (eBook, PDF)

Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This provocative challenge to US policy and strategy maintains that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108608190
• Artikelnr.: 70910138

Autorenporträt

Donald Stoker 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 eleven books, his Clausewitz: His Life and Work (2014), is on the British Army professional reading list.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Are we at war? What do we want? And do we want to win?
2. The way we think about war (particularly limited war) is broken: here is how we fix it
3. The political objective: why nations fight (limited) wars
4. Constraints: or why wars for limited aims are so difficult
5. Strategy: how to think about fighting for a limited political objective
6. And you thought the war was hard: ending the war and securing the peace
Conclusion: is history rhyming?