Military Realism: The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army

by Peter Campbell

Book Overview

After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army's re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering on military realism to explain the complex evolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826223125
• ISBN13: 9780826223128
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"