America's modern wars: understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam
"While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. With only two exceptions -- Panama and the Gulf War under the first President...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. With only two exceptions -- Panama and the Gulf War under the first President Bush -- our campaigns have taken on character of endless slogs without positive results. This analytical work takes a ground-up look at the problem in order to assess how our strategic objectives have recently become divorced from our true capability, or imperatives. The book presents a unique examination of the nature of insurgencies and the three major guerrilla wars the United States has fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. Political passions aside, it addressed in hard detail -- demographic, terrain, cultural issues, and pure distance -- which insurgencies across the globe can successfully be fought It applies the hard experience of the last five decades to address the issues of today. As such, it also provides a timely and meaningful discussion of America's current geopolitical position. It starts with the previously close-held casualty estimate for Iraq that The Dupuy Institute complied in 2004 for the U.S. Department of Defense. Going from the practical to the theoretical, it then discusses a construct for understanding insurgencies and the contexts in which they can be fought. It applies these principles to Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, assessing where the projection of U.S. power can enhance our position and where the expense of our forces merely weakens it. It presents an extensive analysis of insurgencies based upon a unique database of 83 post-World War II cases. The book explores what is important to combat and what is not important to resist in insurgencies. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-359) |
| Beschreibung: | 360 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781612002781 |
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
The Iraq Casualty Estimate
The Art and Science of Counterinsurgency Warfare Studies
The Acid Test: Predicting the Present
Force Ratios Really Do Matter
Cause Really is Important
The Two Together Seem Really Important
Other Similar Work
Outside Support and Structure of Insurgencies
Rules of Engagement and Measurements of Brutality
Sanctuaries, Border Barriers and Population Resettlement
Estimating Insurgent Force Size
The Value of Elections
The Influence of Terrain on Insurgencies
Other Issues
The Burden of War
A Model of Insurgencies
Other Theorists
The Other Side
Withdrawal and War Termination
Relating a Force Ratio Model to Iraq
Relating a Force Ratio Model to Afghanistan
Relating a Force Ratio Model to Vietnam
6 I AMERICA’S MODERN WARS
Chapter 23: Conclusions 286
Chapter 24: Where Do We Go From Here? 294
Chapter 25: A Tale of Two Books 299
Appendix I: Briefing Slides from January 2005 302
Appendix II: The Bosnia Casualty Estimate 308
Appendix III: List of Cases 316
Appendix IV: Force Ratios 319
Appendix V: Force Ratios as Divided by Political Concept 323
Appendix VI: Results of Testing the Model Back to Data 329
Appendix VII: Characteristics of Selected Modern COIN Barriers 331
Appendix VIII: List of all 83 Cases by Indigenous Government Type, The Presence of Elections, Duration, Winner and Type
of Insurgency 335
Appendix IX: Staying the Course (an analysis of duration of insurgencies) 339
Appendix X: Data on 62 Insurgences used for the Test of
Anthony James Joes Theory 345
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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| spelling | Lawrence, Christopher A. Verfasser aut America's modern wars understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam Christopher A. Lawrence (The Depuy Institute) Philadelphia [u.a.] Casemate 2015 360 S. Ill., graph. Darst. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-359) "While the past half-century has seen no diminution in the valor and fighting skill of the U.S. military and its allies, the fact remains that our wars have become more protracted, with decisive results more elusive. With only two exceptions -- Panama and the Gulf War under the first President Bush -- our campaigns have taken on character of endless slogs without positive results. This analytical work takes a ground-up look at the problem in order to assess how our strategic objectives have recently become divorced from our true capability, or imperatives. The book presents a unique examination of the nature of insurgencies and the three major guerrilla wars the United States has fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. Political passions aside, it addressed in hard detail -- demographic, terrain, cultural issues, and pure distance -- which insurgencies across the globe can successfully be fought It applies the hard experience of the last five decades to address the issues of today. As such, it also provides a timely and meaningful discussion of America's current geopolitical position. It starts with the previously close-held casualty estimate for Iraq that The Dupuy Institute complied in 2004 for the U.S. Department of Defense. Going from the practical to the theoretical, it then discusses a construct for understanding insurgencies and the contexts in which they can be fought. It applies these principles to Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam, assessing where the projection of U.S. power can enhance our position and where the expense of our forces merely weakens it. It presents an extensive analysis of insurgencies based upon a unique database of 83 post-World War II cases. The book explores what is important to combat and what is not important to resist in insurgencies. Afghan War (2001-) fast Iraq War (2003-2011) fast Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1965-2014 gnd rswk-swf Iraq War, 2003-2011 / Participation, American Afghan War, 2001- / Participation, American Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Participation, American Military participation / American fast Vietnamkrieg Vietnamkrieg (DE-588)4063516-8 gnd rswk-swf Afghanistankrieg 2001-2021 (DE-588)4997894-9 gnd rswk-swf Golfkrieg 2003 (DE-588)4731075-3 gnd rswk-swf Aufstand (DE-588)4003554-2 gnd rswk-swf Guerilla (DE-588)4022462-4 gnd rswk-swf Kriegführung (DE-588)4073817-6 gnd rswk-swf United States / History, Military / 20th century United States / History, Military / 21st century Iraq fast United States fast Irak USA USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Vietnamkrieg (DE-588)4063516-8 s Golfkrieg 2003 (DE-588)4731075-3 s Afghanistankrieg 2001-2021 (DE-588)4997894-9 s Kriegführung (DE-588)4073817-6 s Aufstand (DE-588)4003554-2 s Guerilla (DE-588)4022462-4 s Geschichte 1965-2014 z DE-604 Digitalisierung BSB Muenchen 22 - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=027977771&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title | America's modern wars understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam |
| title_auth | America's modern wars understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam |
| title_exact_search | America's modern wars understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam |
| title_full | America's modern wars understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam Christopher A. Lawrence (The Depuy Institute) |
| title_fullStr | America's modern wars understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam Christopher A. Lawrence (The Depuy Institute) |
| title_full_unstemmed | America's modern wars understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam Christopher A. Lawrence (The Depuy Institute) |
| title_short | America's modern wars |
| title_sort | america s modern wars understanding iraq afghanistan and vietnam |
| title_sub | understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam |
| topic | Afghan War (2001-) fast Iraq War (2003-2011) fast Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast Iraq War, 2003-2011 / Participation, American Afghan War, 2001- / Participation, American Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Participation, American Military participation / American fast Vietnamkrieg Vietnamkrieg (DE-588)4063516-8 gnd Afghanistankrieg 2001-2021 (DE-588)4997894-9 gnd Golfkrieg 2003 (DE-588)4731075-3 gnd Aufstand (DE-588)4003554-2 gnd Guerilla (DE-588)4022462-4 gnd Kriegführung (DE-588)4073817-6 gnd |
| topic_facet | Afghan War (2001-) Iraq War (2003-2011) Vietnam War (1961-1975) Iraq War, 2003-2011 / Participation, American Afghan War, 2001- / Participation, American Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Participation, American Military participation / American Vietnamkrieg Afghanistankrieg 2001-2021 Golfkrieg 2003 Aufstand Guerilla Kriegführung United States / History, Military / 20th century United States / History, Military / 21st century Iraq United States Irak USA |
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