Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan - James H. Lebovic
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The United States national-security establishment is vast, yet the United States has failed to meet its initial objectives in almost every one of its major, post-World War II conflicts. Of these troubled efforts, the US wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan stand out for their endurance, resource investment, human cost, and miscalculated decisions.
In Planning to Fail, James H. Lebovic argues that a profound myopia helps explain US decision-making failures. In each of the wars explored in this book, he identifies four stages of intervention. First and foremost, policymakers chose unwisely to go to war. After the fighting began, they inadvisably sought to extend or expand the mission. Next, they pursued the mission, in abbreviated form, to suboptimal effect. Finally, they adapted the mission to exit from the conflict.
Lebovic argues that US leaders were effectively planning to fail whatever their hopes and thoughts were at the time the intervention began. Decision-makers struggled less than they should have, even when conditions allowed for good choices. Then, when conditions on the ground left them with only bad choices, they struggled furiously and more than could ever matter. Offering a far-ranging and detailed analysis, this book identifies an unmistakable pattern of failure and highlights lessons we can learn from it.
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This post has 7 comments
January 2nd, 2022
With the Capitalist military-industrial complex pulling the strings in Washington, War equals $$$.
They want the USA to go to war “early and often”. They want to stretch it out as long as possible no matter what the cost in life and treasure. After all, that treasure goes into their pockets.
January 2nd, 2022
Spot on BillyJack.
The most powerful country on the planet, together with its extensive coalition, not being able to win wars against some of the poorest is an indication that we’re now in the age of the “forever wars”. This is not a bug but the main feature. Winning wars is no longer the objective, waging them for as long as possible has become the west’s way of doing business.
January 3rd, 2022
Well, this isn’t new, of course. The Brutish empire forcibly occupied countries where they didn’t belong for centuries; and had to keep savagely oppressing the peoples of those countries. And not merely the West, ruthless regimes have done this throughout the world. There’s nothing new under that sun.
January 3rd, 2022
Of all of the American elite, our military represent the worst, and that’s saying an awful lot.
January 3rd, 2022
However, wasn’t the military the first institution to desegregate? It also offered educational opportunities for people from otherwise disadvantaged backgrounds. (Disclaimer: like most sane pilgrims & peaceable, spiritual wanderers, I hate war.)
January 6th, 2022
@caesar963
I guess it was socialist cavebrits who wiped out the dinosaurs too?
January 9th, 2022
In the above description, the criticisms of stage 2 and stage 3 are in contradiction. And the criticism of stage 4 contradicts the criticism of stage 1.
The description indicates that the author is trying to combine incompatible leftist anti-imperialist, anti-interventionist, anti-colonial critiques with right-wing critiques of implementation (that the Vietnam War, etc, would have been won if the liberals and doves in Congress & elsewhere had not hamstrung America’s great & powerful military warriors).
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