Limiting Risk in America's Wars: Airpower, Asymmetrics, and a New Strategic Paradigm

by Phillip S. Meilinger

Book Overview

The United States has the most expensive and seemingly unstoppable military in the world. Yet, since World War II the nation's military success rate has been meager. The Korean War was a draw, while Vietnam, Mogadishu, Afghanistan, and Iraq were clear losses. Successes include Iraq in 1991, the Balkans (Croatia and Kosovo), Panama, the initial takedowns of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, and Libya. What differentiates the failures from the successes?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682472507
• ISBN13: 9781682472507
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"