B. A. Friedman, "On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)
New Books in Military History
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The US Military's Failures
I don't reject the idea that US policymakers and politicians have played a big role in why some of these conflicts have become failures. My greater point is that the, especially the upper levels of the military and the military itself also is responsible for that. So I'm not trying to place the blame on one group or another. I'm trying to spread it out amongst. And not everyone that participated, you might say. Yeah, I heard a phrase lately. I don't know where it came from, but the US does not lose wars. It loses interest. That phrase kind of implies that we can't be beaten, but we can fail. We've got to figure out a way as
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