Steven Metz is Chairman of the Regional Strategy and Planning Department and Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. He is the author of "Eisenhower as Strategist: The Coherent Use of Military Power in War and Peace" and "Learning from Iraq: Counterinsurgency in American Strategy" and articles in such journals as "Washington Quarterly", "Joint Force Quarterly", "The National Interest", "Defence Studies", and "Current History". His research has taken him to thirty countries, including Iraq immediately after the collapse of the Sa...