'In Why America Loses Wars, Donald Stoker offers an impassioned, deeply informed, and all-too-convincing critique of certain US strategic practices since the 1950s. McMaster - author of Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam Citizens of democratic nations should read Why America Loses Wars so that they might demand strategies that achieve outcomes in war consistent with vital interests and worthy of the costs in blood and treasure.' This is a book that should be read not only by students of military and diplomatic history but also by those in government charged with the development of national security policy. He exposes fundamental misunderstandings concerning the nature of ‘limited’ war - misunderstandings that have undermined America’s ability to fight, to defeat enemies, to consolidate gains, and to achieve sustainable outcomes consistent with war aims. 'At a time when threats to national and international security are increasing, Donald Stoker has produced a work vital to regaining the competence necessary to win in war.
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