From Lexington to Desert Storm and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

A tactical history of America's various military involvements. Chapters address: issues and events; political objectives; military objectives and strategies; political considerations; military technology and techniques; and military conduct. This second edition is revised and updated.

History

Snow, Donald M.

Drew, Dennis M.

Americas

Routledge

With a new chapter dealing with American military experience since Desert Storm.

From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

Decisions about when, where, and why to commit the United States to the use of force, and how to conduct warfare and ultimately end it, are hotly debated not only contemporaneously but also for decades afterward. We are engaged in such a debate today, quite often without a solid grounding in the country's experience of war, both political and military. This book, by a political scientist and a career military officer and historian, is premised on the view that we cannot afford that kind of innocence. Updated and revised with new chapters on the Afghan and Iraq wars, the book systematically examines twelve U.S. wars from the revolution to the present day. For each conflict the authors review underlying issues and events; political objectives; military objectives and strategy; political considerations; military technology and technique; military conduct, and 'the better state of the peace', that is, the ultimate disposition of the original political goals.

This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library. HP's patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience. Despite the cleaning process, occasional flaws may still be present that are part of the original book, reflecting the journey of these collections over a lifetime of use.

Making Strategy: An Introduction to National Security Processes and Problems

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

University Press of the Pacific

This new work defines national security strategy, its objectives, the problems it confronts, and the influences that constrain and facilitate its development and implementation in a post–Cold War, post–9/11 environment. The authors note that making and implementing national strategy centers on risk management and present a model for assessing strategic risks and the process for allocating limited resources to reduce them. The major threats facing the United States now come from its unique status as “the sole remaining superpower” against which no nation-state or other entity can hope to compete through conventional means. The alternative is what is now called asymmetrical or fourth generation warfare. Drew and Snow discuss all these factors in detail and bring them together by examining the continuing problems of making strategy in a changed and changing world.

Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems

Education & Teaching

AIR UNIVERSITY PRESS

Schools & Teaching

Independently published

The Eagle's Talons: The American War Experience

This book is about national security strategy: what it is, what its objectives are, what problems it seeks to solve or at least manage, and what kinds of influences constrain and create opportunities for the development and implementation of strategies. The heart of the problem with which national security strategy deals is the series of threats—normally military, but increasingly semi- or nonmilitary in character—that the country must confront and somehow overcome or contain. When the original version of this book1 was published in 1988, the set of threats facing the United States was reasonably static—those problems associated with the Cold War confrontation with a communist world led by the Soviet Union—even if there were signs of change on the horizon. In the ensuing decade and a half, that configuration of problems largely dissolved, along with the concrete parameters within which we operated. In its place is a much more diffuse, shifting, and controversial set of problems that is simultaneously simple, compelling, and arguable. Making strategy is no longer a simple, straightforward process, if it ever were. The making and implementation of strategy at the national level is largely an exercise in risk management and risk reduction. Risk, at that level, is the difference between the threats posed to our security by our adversaries and our capabilities to counter or negate those threats. Assessing risk and resolving it has two primary dimensions. The first is the assessment of risk itself: what conditions represent threats to our security, and how serious are those threats relative to one another and to our safety? The answers to these questions are not mechanical and obvious but are the result of subjective human assessments based on different political and philosophical judgments about the world and our place in it. The other dimension is the adequacy of resources to counter the threats that we identify. In circumstances of plenty, where there are adequate resources (manpower, materiel, perceived will, etc.) to counter all threats, this is not a problem. In the real world, each of these dimensions presents a real set of issues, which we must acknowledge up front.

Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy - An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

From Lexington to Desert Storm

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

From Lexington to Desert Storm: War and Politics in the American Experience

Business & Money

Economics

First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an Informa company.

From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back Problems of Limits to Growth, Population Control, and Migrations

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From Lexington to Desert Storm and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

From Lexington to Desert Storm and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

Making Strategy: An Introduction to National Security Processes and Problems

Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems

The Eagle's Talons: The American War Experience

Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy - An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems

From Lexington to Desert Storm: War and Politics in the American Experience

From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back Problems of Limits to Growth, Population Control, and Migrations