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Author Kolenda, Christopher D

Title Zero-Sum Victory : What We're Getting Wrong about War
Published Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages)
Summary Why have the major, post-9/11, US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances, major capacity-building efforts, and repeated tactical victories by what many observers call the world's best military, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned bloody and intractable. The US government's fixation on zero-sum decisive victory is an important part of the explanation why successful military operations to overthrow two developing-world regimes failed to achieve favorable and durable outcomes. In 'Zero-Sum Victory', Christopher D. Kolenda identifies three interrelated problems that have emerged from the government's insistence on a zero-sum victory
Subject Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Case studies
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Case studies
Prolonged war -- United States -- Case studies
Irregular warfare -- Case studies
Irregular warfare
Military policy
Prolonged war
SUBJECT United States -- Military policy -- History -- 21st century -- Case studies
Subject Iraq
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0813152895
9780813152837
0813152836
9780813152899