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

by Peter Campbell

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082622184X
• ISBN13: 9780826221841
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"