Zero-Sum Victory: What We're Getting Wrong about War

by Christopher D Kolenda and Christopher D. Kolenda

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813152763
• ISBN13: 9780813152769
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up