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Assessing War: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure

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Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse efforts to measure progress, often inviting politics and wishful thinking to replace objective evaluation. In Assessing War, military historians, social scientists, and military officers explore how observers have analyzed the trajectory of war in American conflicts from the Seven Years' War through the war in Afghanistan. Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, the contributors examine wartime assessment in both theory and practice and, through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas and economics. This group of distinguished authors grapples with both conventional and irregular wars and emerging aspects of conflict-such as cyberwar and nation building-that add to the complexities of the modern threat environment. The volume ends with recommendations for practitioners on best approaches while offering sobering conclusions about the challenges of assessing war without politicization or self-delusion. Covering conflicts from the eighteenth century to today, Assessing War blends focused advice and a uniquely broad set of case studies to ponder vital questions about warfare's past-and its future. The book includes a foreword by Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (USA, Ret.), former chief of staff of the US Army and former commander, Multi-National Force-Iraq.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (USA, Ret.) Introduction: The Challenge of Wartime AssessmentLeo J. Blanken and Jason J. Lepore Part I. Theory1. Principals, Agents, and AssessmentLeo J. Blanken and Jason J. Lepore2. Civil-Military Relations and Operational AssessmentsHy Rothstein3. Wartime Strategic Assessment: Concepts and ChallengesScott Sigmund GartnerPart II. Historical Cases4. Assessing Proxy Forces: A Case Study of the Early Years of the Seven Years' War (1754-63) in North AmericaJohn Grenier5. Assessing War: The Revolutionary WarEdward G. Lengel6. Assessing Enemy Civilian Will: The United States Goes to War, 1861Brooks D. Simpson7. "Keep 'Em Moving": The Role of Assessment in US Cavalry Operations against the Plains IndiansMichael Richardson 8. Assessing the Philippine WarBrian McAllister Linn9. Putting the Fuse to the Powder: Strategic Assessment in the First World WarD. Scott Stephenson10. Assessment in World War IIGerhard L. Weinberg11. Measuring Gains on the Battlefield and at the Peace Table: Shifting Assessments during the Korean WarConrad C. Crane12. Choosing Progress: Evaluating the "Salesmanship" of the Vietnam War in 1967Gregory A. DaddisPart III. Current Cases13. Assessing Counterinsurgency: The Iraq War, 2004-5William C. Hix and Kalev I. Sepp14. Circular Logic and Constant Progress: IW Assessments in AfghanistanAlejandro S. Hernandez, Julian Ouellet, and Christopher J. Nannini15. Monitoring from Afar: How Al-Qaeda Assesses Its ProgressMark StoutPart IV. Alternative Dimensions of Assessment16. Assessment, Proportionality, and Justice in WarBradley J. Strawser and Russell Muirhead17. Assessing Cyber WarDorothy E. Denning18. Assessing the War of Ideas during WarRobert Reilly19. Assessing Economic Outcomes in Nation-building OperationsAric P. ShafranConclusion: Can We Learn from the Assessment of War?Anthony H. Cordesman and Hy Rothstein ContributorsIndex

About the Author :
Leo J. Blanken is an associate professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the US Naval Postgraduate School and author of Rational Empires: Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion. Hy Rothstein is a retired US Army colonel, a senior lecturer in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, and co-editor of Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War. Jason J. Lepore is an associate professor of economics at California Polytechnic State University.

Review :
A timely and needed anthology. . . . A valuable book for serious students of strategy and military policy and is a must for readers interested in assessing military success.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781626162464
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 603 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1626162468
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure
  • Width: 152 mm


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