Mara E. Karlin

The Inheritance

America's Military After Two Decades of War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring how the U.S. military can move beyond Iraq and Afghanistan Despite its lengthy war fighting experience and high-technology weapons, the military is woefully unprepared for future wars because of a conflicted legacy of long involvement in war without end and uncertainty about the future security environment. But the United States cannot simply hit the reset button. If the U.S. military seeks to win in the future, it must acknowledge and reconcile with the inheritance of its long and failed wars. This book seeks to help them do so.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brookings Institution Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 525g
• ISBN-13: 9780815738459
• ISBN-10: 0815738455
• Artikelnr.: 59506312

Autorenporträt

Mara E. Karlin was director of Strategic Studies and associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Karlin previously served in national security roles for five U.S. secretaries of defense. She is the author of Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Why Should We Care: Legacy, Myth, and Memory
2. The Military's Sense of Itself: The Crisis of Confidence
3. The Military's Relationship to Society: The Crisis of Caring
4. The Military's Relationship with Its Overseers: The Crisis of Meaningful
Civilian Control
5. How the Military Goes to War
6. How the Military Wages War
7. Who Serves in the Military
8. Who Leads the Military
9. The Military's Preparedness for Future Conflicts
10. Now What?
Brief Chronology of the Post-9/11 Wars
Notes
Index