US Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq: Lessons and Legacies
Seyom Brown and Robert H. Scales, editors | | ISBN: 978-1-58826-809-9 $65.00 |
| ISBN: 978-1-62637-020-3 $65.00 |
2012/221 pages/LC: 2011049559
Tower Center Political Studies |
DESCRIPTION
How have the costs, both human and material, of US involvement in the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq affected the country's will for conducting regime-change operations? What are the implications for issues of strategy? The authors of US Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq assess the impact of the two conflicts on US foreign policy, military planning, and capacities for counterinsurgency and state building. They also offer keenly insightful guidance for avoiding the pitfalls and increasing the prospects for success when the United States does intervene.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Seyom Brown is John Goodwin Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security in the Department of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. The most recent of his many publications include Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States and The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Robert H. Scales (Maj. Gen., retired) is former commandant of the US Army War College. Dr. Scales is author of Firepower in Limited War, a history of the evolution of firepower doctrine since the end of the Korean War and Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Military, as well as The Iraq War: A Military History (with Williamson Murray).
CONTENTS
- Foreword—James F. Hollifield.
- Introduction—the Editors.
- POST-SEPTEMBER 11 FOREIGN POLICY.
- The Emergent Debate: Introduction to Part 1—the Editors.
- US Strategy Toward "Rogue States"—R. Litwak.
- Learning from Our Mistakes—M. Weinbaum.
- MILITARY STRATEGY AND PLANNING.
- Reassessing Priorities: Introduction to Part 2—the Editors.
- Military Strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq—D. Caldwell.
- Lessons Learned in Afghanistan and Iraq—S. Biddle.
- Winning the Wars We’re In—J. Nagl.
- COUNTERINSURGENCY AND STATEBUILDING.
- Unanticipated Challenges: Introduction to Part 3—the Editors.
- Strategic Counterinsurgency—L. Robinson.
- Assessing Counterinsurgency Operations—M. O’Hanlon.
- The Predicament in Afghanistan—V. Felbab-Brown.
- CONCLUSION.
- Where Do We Go from Here?—the Editors.
