From Lexington to Baghdad and Beyond: War and Politics in the American Experience

Decisions about when, where, and why to commit the United States to the use of force, and how to conduct warfare and ultimately end it, are hotly debated not only contemporaneously but also for decades afterward. We are engaged in such a debate today, quite often without a solid grounding in the country's experience of war, both political and military. This book, by a political scientist and a career military officer and historian, is premised on the view that we cannot afford that kind of innocence. Updated and revised with new chapters on the Afghan and Iraq wars, the book systematically examines twelve U.S. wars from the revolution to the present day. For each conflict the authors review underlying issues and events; political objectives; military objectives and strategy; political considerations; military technology and technique; military conduct, and 'the better state of the peace', that is, the ultimate disposition of the original political goals.

• The Second World War: A Short History (Struggle for Survival)
• The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Fourth Edition (The Chicago History of American Civilization)
• Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War
• Over Here: The First World War and American Society
• The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea
• Civil Disobedience, Solitude and Life Without Principle (Literary Classics)
• Common Sense (AmazonClassics Edition)
• Battle: A History Of Combat And Culture
• Ripples of Battle
• Feeding Mars: Logistics In Western Warfare From The Middle Ages To The Present