Book contents
- Why America Loses Wars
- Why America Loses Wars
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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 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?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Way We Think about War (Particularly So-Called Limited War) Is Broken: Here Is How We Fix It
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2022
- Why America Loses Wars
- Why America Loses Wars
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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 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?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Why America Loses WarsLimited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present, pp. 21 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022