| Description |
1 online resource (22 pages) |
| Contents |
Failure in two past administrations -- The challenge to the Trump administration -- Using the tools at hand -- Use more airpower and use it more effectively : meeting the challenge posed by enemies that use civilians as weapons of war -- Create effective train and assist and combat support missions : focusing on forward efforts -- Use conditional aid and active diplomacy to encourage host countries to make necessary reforms and move towards stability, recovery, and development -- A cautionary statement : leaving can still be the closest thing to victory |
| Summary |
"The United States has now been continuously at war for more than a decade and a half, and still has not found a way to decisively win a conflict in a 'failed state' where extremists are willing to use almost any level of force to achieve their objective. This is not a result of any failure in military capability in the sense of conventional war, but it is a critical failure to come to grips with irregular warfare, with the challenge of terrorism and religious extremism, and to link military action to the ability to create post-conflict stability. The United States did demonstrate in 1991 that it could quickly win a conflict against a weaker conventional force in Iraq, but has struggled ever since to find ways to use decisive force against non-state actors, to deal with civil wars, and to bring deeply divided nations back to some form of stability. In the process, it has expanded from a war in Afghanistan that began in 2001 to invading Iraq in 2003, to a steadily wider a wide range of military operations in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia"--Publisher's web site |
| Notes |
"April 4, 2017." |
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"Burke Chair in Strategy." |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (CSIS, viewed April 10, 2017) |
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Diplomatic relations.
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Military policy.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Military policy -- 21st century
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003697
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
CSIS Burke Chair in Strategy, issuing body.
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Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), publisher.
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