Winning Modern Wars

Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire

by Wesley K. Clark

General Wesley Clark, retired, applies his prodigious knowledge of 21st-century warfare to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the war on terrorism. Clark's credentials include serving as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the Balkan crisis, and thus he brings a grasp of policy along with his military expertise. In addition to providing a soldier's-eye narrative of the events of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he provides a context that draws on the Cold War and post-Cold War military and intelligence history. He also injects his narrative with criticism of the Bush administration, pointing out where he thinks bad policy put American troops at risk. The second focus of the book is the war on terrorism, which he sees as disastrously sidetracked by the Iraqi venture. General Clark sees the post-Taliban moves as having squandered good will and missed opportunities.

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	9781586482183, Hardcover, Perseus Books Group, 2003 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9781586482183

Publisher Notes

General Wesley K. Clark's WAGING MODERN WAR: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat, a Washington Post bestseller, examined his experience directing the NATO-led war in Kosovo. As Clark saw it, the Kosovo war--limited in scope, measured in effect, extraordinarily complex in execution, waged with an uneven coalition, with instantaneous media coverage, and with a duration measured in days and not years, would serve as a model for contemporary war. He has been proven right. In WINNING MODERN WARS, General Wesley Clark writes about how the issues and principles discussed in his earlier book were evident in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever the war on terrorism has taken us or may take us next, providing a frank and revealing analysis of the gains, risks, and shortfalls of America's current approach and offering informed alternatives to that approach.
What Clark...has to say on our national plans and tactics--and the lessons of empire--is invaluable, reminding us that as we celebrate our successes, we must also tend to their consequences.

Media Reviews

''[WINNING MODERN WAR'S] 200 pages, many of them updated just a month ago, are obviously designed to abet the swift transformation of a once embittered warrior and armchair television analyst into a hard-driving, platitudinous candidate for president."

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