Editorial : "Asserts quite convincingly that what people actually did is at least as important and instructive as what they thought or said."US Military History Review, Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.
"Provides a valuable counterpoint to a topic relevant to current debates about American strategy and policy. It is always beneficial to understand clearly from whence one comes before determining where one ought to go. "Lieutenant Colonel Brian L. Steed, US Army, Proceedings
"Provides valuable synopses of the most important campaigns and explains what they reveal about developments in military practice, demonstrating the variety of ways in which US leaders have adapted their approaches to military force to fit the circumstances."Foreign Affairs
| Title | : | Reconsidering the American Way of War: US Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan |
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626161399 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-13 |
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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.
As a scholar of Clausewitz, Echevarria borrows explicitly from the Prussian to describe the American way of war not only as an extension of US policy by other means, but also the continuation of US politics by those means. The book's focus on strategic and operational practice closes the gap between critique
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