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The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
Dominic Tierney
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Description for The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts
Hardcover. A provocative blueprint for how the United States can successfully disengage from failing wars without compromising its core values or interests. Num Pages: 400 pages, 45 b/w photos, illustrations, drawings, diagrams run w/text, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 626.
For a century, the United States steadily accumulated a string of military triumphs. But since 1945 the onslaught of failures and stalemates in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan has exposed the country's inability to change course after battlefield setbacks---with grave consequences for thousands of American soldiers and our allies. THE RIGHT WAY TO LOSE A WAR provocatively explains how America can draw failed campaigns to a close without compromising its core values through three specific steps---surge, talk, and leave. THE RIGHT WAY TO LOSE A WAR is an essential guidebook for life in an era of unwinnable conflicts, a book ... Read more
For a century, the United States steadily accumulated a string of military triumphs. But since 1945 the onslaught of failures and stalemates in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan has exposed the country's inability to change course after battlefield setbacks---with grave consequences for thousands of American soldiers and our allies. THE RIGHT WAY TO LOSE A WAR provocatively explains how America can draw failed campaigns to a close without compromising its core values through three specific steps---surge, talk, and leave. THE RIGHT WAY TO LOSE A WAR is an essential guidebook for life in an era of unwinnable conflicts, a book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316254885
SKU
V9780316254885
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About Dominic Tierney
Dominic Tierney is an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Oxford University. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a former visiting associate professor at Princeton University, a former research fellow at Harvard University, and the author of three books, including How We Fight and Failing ... Read more
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