The Case Against Military Intervention: Why We Do It and Why It Fails

ISBN-13: 9780765647566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str.

Donald Snow

Opis

Since World War II, military intervention in developing world internal conflicts (DWIC) has become the primary form of U.S. military activity, and these interventions have proven unsuccessful in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. This book argues such failure was entirely predictable, even inevitable, due both to the nature and dynamics of foreign military intrusion in the affairs of other countries and especially the DWICs that provide the major contemporary form of potential U.S. military in the foreseeable future. Basing its analysis in both human nature (the adverse reaction to prolonged outsider intrusion) and historical analogy, the book argues strongly why military intervention should be avoided as a national security option and the implications of such a policy decision for national security strategy and policy.

Spis treści

SELECTED CONTENTS: Introduction  1. Setting the Table: The Phenomenon of Intervention  2. The Transition: What Happened to our World of Violence?  3. The Interventionist Age  4. Modern Mayhem: The American Experience in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan  5. Sticking your Guns in Other People’s Business  6. Defying Einstein: Repetition and Results  7. The Way Ahead

O autorze

Donald M. Snow is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Alabama, where he specialized in international relations, national security, and foreign policy. He has also served as visiting professor at the U.S. Air, Army, and Naval War Colleges and the U.S. Air Command and Staff College. He is the author or co-author of over 50 books and monographs on IR, national security, and foreign policy topics.