The American Way Of Irregular War
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The American Way Of Irregular War
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Author : Charles T. Cleveland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-15
The American Way Of Irregular War written by Charles T. Cleveland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with History categories.
The United States has failed to achieve strategic objectives in nearly every military campaign since Vietnam. This memoir describes how the United States can begin to build the American way of irregular war needed for success in modern conflict.
Irregular Enemies And The Essence Of Strategy
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Author : Colin S. Gray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Irregular Enemies And The Essence Of Strategy written by Colin S. Gray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Counterinsurgency categories.
The author offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way" and the kind of behavior that is most effective in countering irregular foes. The author poses the question, Can the American way of war adapt to a strategic threat context dominated by irregular enemies? He suggests that the answer is "perhaps, but only with difficulty."
The First Way Of War
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Author : John Grenier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-31
The First Way Of War written by John Grenier and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-31 with History categories.
This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.
Perspectives On The American Way Of War
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Author : Thomas A. Marks
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Perspectives On The American Way Of War written by Thomas A. Marks and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with History categories.
Perspectives on the American Way of War examines salient cases of American experience in irregular warfare, focusing upon the post-World War II era. This book asks why recent misfires have emerged in irregular warfare from an institutional, professional, and academic context which regularly produces evidence that there is in fact no lack of understanding of both irregular challenges and correct responses. Expert contributors explore the reasoning behind the inability to achieve victory, however defined, and argue that what security professionals have failed to fully recognize, even today, is that what is at issue is not warfare suffused with politics but rather the very opposite, politics suffused with warfare. Perspectives on the American Way of War will be of great interest to scholars of war and conflict studies, strategic and military studies, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and terrorism and counterterrorism. The book was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.
Irregular Enemies And The Essence Of Strategy Can The American Way Of War Adapt
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Author : Colin S. Gray
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-08-04
Irregular Enemies And The Essence Of Strategy Can The American Way Of War Adapt written by Colin S. Gray and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-04 with Education categories.
Strategist Colin Gray offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the American way." He concludes that there is a serious mismatch between that "way" and the kind of behavior that is most effective in countering irregular foes. The author poses the question, "Can the American way of war adapt to a strategic threat context dominated by irregular enemies?" He suggests that the answer is "perhaps, but only with difficulty."
Reconsidering The American Way Of War
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Author : Antulio J. Echevarria II
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-28
Reconsidering The American Way Of War written by Antulio J. Echevarria II and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-28 with Computers categories.
Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It surveys all major US wars from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as most smaller US conflicts to determine what patterns, if any, existed in American uses of force. Contrary to many popular sentiments, Echevarria finds that the American way of war is not astrategic, apolitical, or defined by the use of overwhelming force. Instead, the American way of war was driven more by political considerations than military ones, and the amount of force employed was rarely overwhelming or decisive. Echevarria discovers that most conceptions of American strategic culture fail to hold up to scrutiny, and that US operational practice has been closer to military science than to military art. This book should be of interest to military practitioners and policymakers, students and scholars of military history and security studies, and general readers interested in military history and the future of military power.
Irregular Army
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Author : Matt Kennard
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2012-09-17
Irregular Army written by Matt Kennard and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-17 with Political Science categories.
Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard’s explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, criminals of all stripes, the overweight, and the mentally ill. Based on several years of reporting, Irregular Army includes extensive interviews with extremist veterans and leaders of far-right hate groups—who spoke openly of their eagerness to have their followers acquire military training for a coming domestic race war. As a report commissioned by the Department of Defense itself put it, “Effectively, the military has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy pertaining to extremism.” Irregular Army connects some of the War on Terror’s worst crimes to this opening-up of the US military. With millions of veterans now back in the US and domestic extremism on the rise, Kennard’s book is a stark warning about potential dangers facing Americans—from their own soldiers.
The Insurgents
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Author : Fred Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-01-02
The Insurgents written by Fred Kaplan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE INSURGENTS unfolds against the backdrop of two wars waged against insurgencies-- wars which the Pentagon's top generals didn't know how to fight. But a small group of soldiers and scholars did have a plan for fighting these kinds of wars, people like General David Petraeus and Colonels John Nagl, David Kilcullen, and H.R. McMaster. In order to push the idea of "counterinsurgency" warfare, they behaved like insurgents within their own army-and very self-consciously so. Fred Kaplan explains where this idea came from, and how the men and women who latched onto this idea created a community (some would refer to themselves as a "cabal") that maneuvered the idea through the highest echelons of power. But this is also a cautionary tale about how even creative ideas can harden into dogma, how smart strategists-the "best and the brightest" of our times-can sometimes sway politicians but don't always win wars. The Insurgents made their military more adaptive to the conflicts of the post-Cold War era, but their self-confidence led us deeper into wars that we shouldn't have been fighting and perhaps couldn't have been won.
The American Way Of War
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Author : Russell F. Weigley
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1977
The American Way Of War written by Russell F. Weigley and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with History categories.
" . . . a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." —History "A particularly timely account." —Kansas City Times "It reads easily but is not a popularized history . . . nor does the book become a history of battles. . . . Weigley's analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." —Perspective
Mission Revolution
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Author : Jennifer Morrison Taw
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-18
Mission Revolution written by Jennifer Morrison Taw and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Political Science categories.
Defined as operations other than war, stability operations can include peacekeeping activities, population control, and counternarcotics efforts, and for the entire history of the United States military, they have been considered a dangerous distraction if not an outright drain on combat resources. Yet in 2005, the U.S. Department of Defense reversed its stance on these practices, a dramatic shift in the mission of the armed forces and their role in foreign and domestic affairs. With the elevation of stability operations, the job of the American armed forces is no longer just to win battles but to create a controlled, nonviolent space for political negotiations and accord. Yet rather than produce revolutionary outcomes, stability operations have resulted in a large-scale mission creep with harmful practical and strategic consequences. Jennifer Morrison Taw examines the military's sudden embrace of stability operations and its implications for American foreign policy and war. Through a detailed examination of deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, changes in U.S. military doctrine, adaptations in force preparation, and the political dynamics behind this new stance, Taw connects the preference for stability operations to the far-reaching, overly ambitious American preoccupation with managing international stability. She also shows how domestic politics have reduced civilian agencies' capabilities while fostering an unhealthy overreliance on the military. Introducing new concepts such as securitized instability and institutional privileging, Taw builds a framework for understanding and analyzing the expansion of the American armed forces' responsibilities in an ever-changing security landscape.