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03344aam a2200457 i 4500 001 A532B388A55F11EAA027EF1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20200603010033 008 190819s2020 mouab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019034808 020 $a 0826221947 020 $a 9780826221940 035 $a (OCoLC)1114273674 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d VMI $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a U240 P765 2020 100 1 $a Proctor, Pat, $d 1971- $e author. 245 10 $a Lessons unlearned : $b the U.S. Army's role in creating the forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq / $c Pat Proctor. 246 30 $a U.S. Army's role in creating the forever wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 264 1 $a Columbia : $b University of Missouri Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xv, 486 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a American military experience series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Phoenix or Icarus? -- Somalia, Haiti, and Force XXI -- Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Army after Next -- Kosovo, the War on Terror, and the Objective and Interim Forces -- "The First, the Supreme, the Most Far-Reaching Act of Judgement" 520 $a "Pat Proctor has written an important, long overdue, critique of the Army's preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era. As a soldier-scholar, his book contributes an original argument on a national security issue that continues to vex in the twenty-first century: Has the Army lost its ability to win strategically by focusing on fighting conventional battles against peer enemies, or can it adapt to deal with the greater complexity of counterinsurgent and information age warfare? In this blunt critique of the senior leadership of the U.S. Army, Colonel Proctor reveals that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Army stubbornly refused to reshape itself in response to this new strategic reality, leaving it largely unprepared when the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq began. This is the first study to connect the failures of these wars to America's disastrous performance in the war on terror. Moreover, this book is not just an esoteric history; the U.S. Army is marching headlong toward repeating the same mistakes. This book serves as an "intervention," an attempt to convince Army leaders to change what Colonel Proctor contends is a disastrous course"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) $z United States. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x Evaluation. $x Evaluation. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x Evaluation. $x Evaluation. 651 0 $a United States $x History, Military $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Intervention (International law) $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Military doctrine $z United States. 650 0 $a Strategy. 610 17 $a United States. $b Army $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00533532 776 08 $i Online version: $a Proctor, Pat, 1971- $t Lessons not learned $d Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2020. $z 9780826274373 $w (DLC) 2019034809 830 0 $a American military experience series 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200702012551.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A532B388A55F11EAA027EF1497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search