Inheritance - America''s Military After Two Decades of War

Exploring how the U.S. military can move beyond Iraq and Afghanistan
Despite its lengthy war fighting experience and high-technology weapons, the military is woefully unprepared for future wars because of a conflicted legacy of long involvement in war without end and uncertainty about the future security environment. But the United States cannot simply hit the reset button. If the U.S. military seeks to win in the future, it must acknowledge and reconcile with the inheritance of its long and failed wars. This book seeks to help them do so.

List of contents

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Why Should We Care: Legacy, Myth, and Memory
2. The Military's Sense of Itself: The Crisis of Confidence
3. The Military's Relationship to Society: The Crisis of Caring
4. The Military's Relationship with Its Overseers: The Crisis of Meaningful Civilian Control
5. How the Military Goes to War
6. How the Military Wages War
7. Who Serves in the Military
8. Who Leads the Military
9. The Military's Preparedness for Future Conflicts
10. Now What?
Brief Chronology of the Post-9/11 Wars
Notes
Index

About the author

By Mara E. Karlin

Product details

• Authors: Mara E. Karlin
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2021
• EAN: 9780815738459
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-3845-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, HISTORY / Military / United States, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, International Relations, Political structure & processes, Public Administration, United States of America, USA, Political structure and processes, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science