Outmaneuvered America's tragic encounter with warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan
"Since the early 1960s, there have only been twelve years in which American troops have not been in combat, either in a formally declared conflict or otherwise. The vast majority of these have ended in failure, or something close to it. Why has the US been so ineffective, given the fact that the Ame...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Warren, James A., |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Outmaneuvered : |b America's tragic encounter with warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan / |c James A. Warren. |
| 250 | |a First Scribner hardcover edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Scribner, |c 2025. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2025 | |
| 300 | |a x, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "Since the early 1960s, there have only been twelve years in which American troops have not been in combat, either in a formally declared conflict or otherwise. The vast majority of these have ended in failure, or something close to it. Why has the US been so ineffective, given the fact that the American armed forces are universally recognized as the best in the world? This is the key question James Warren answers here in Outmaneuvered. Most scholars and analysts believe that the primary cause of our abysmal war record since Vietnam has been the US military's overwhelmingly conventional approach-which favors kinetic operations, highly mobile precision firepower, and sophisticated systems of command and control. Here, Warren argues that the more formidable obstacle to success has been pervasive strategic ineptitude at the highest levels of Washington, including the executive branch, congress, and the national security council responsible for shaping US foreign policy. Time and time again, American presidents have committed military forces to operations in foreign countries whose politics and cultures they did not fully understand. Presidents of both political parties, including Kennedy, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Obama have overestimated the capacity of US forces to alter the social and political landscape of foreign nations, and underestimated the ability of insurgents and terrorists to develop strategies that draw out conflict and wage effective propaganda campaigns to curtail Washington's will to carry on the fight. Warren concludes the book by advocating for a less hubristic foreign policy and a broader conception of warfare as a political and military enterprise. For readers of political, military, and US history-as well as anyone interested in international relations and geopolitical strategy-this book offers unparalleled insights into America's prior-and potentially future-military conflicts"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Military policy. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x History, Military |y 20th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x History, Military |y 21st century. | |
| 949 | |a Schlow |b SANONNE |c 355.0097 WAR |d i |e 39635104864191 |f 818296 |g ddc |j 05/05/2026 | ||
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