Lessons Unlearned: The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (American Military Experience)
University of Missouri
ISBN13:
9780826221940
$50.56
Colonel Pat Proctors long overdue critique of the Armys preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era focuses on a national security issue that continues to vex in the twenty-first century: Has the Army lost its ability to win strategically by focusing on fighting conventional battles against peer enemies? Or can it adapt to deal with the greater complexity of counterinsurgent and information-age warfare? In this blunt critique of the senior leadership of the U.S. Army, Proctor contends that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Army stubbornly refused to reshape itself in response to the new strategic reality, a decision that saw it struggle through one low-intensity conflict after anothersome inconclusive, some tragicin the 1980s and 1990s, and leaving it largely unprepared when it found itself engagedseemingly foreverin wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The first book-length study to connect the failures of these wars to Americas disastrous performance in the war on terror, Proctors work serves as an attempt to convince Army leaders to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
- | Author: Pat Proctor
- | Publisher: University of Missouri
- | Publication Date: March 09, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 500 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0826221947
- | ISBN-13: 9780826221940
- Author:
- Pat Proctor
- Publisher:
- University of Missouri
- Publication Date:
- March 09, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 500 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0826221947
- ISBN-13:
- 9780826221940