The American way of war has been much written about over the years.
That literature is remarkable for its explicit and implicit
consensus regarding the overriding characteristics of the American
approach to warfare--aggressive, direct, and focused on achieving
decisive victory. A way of war implies thinking about conflict
holistically, from prewar condition-setting to the final
accomplishment of one's strategic objectives. Unfortunately,
American thinking about war tends to put more emphasis on coercive
operations--the destruction of an opponent's regular forces on the
field of battle--than on what is loosely known as war's
"aftermath." Yet, it is in the aftermath where wars are typically
won. In this monograph, Lieutenant Colonel Echevarria examines the
principal characteristics and ideas associated with the American
way of war, past and present. He argues that Americans do not yet
have a way of war. What they have is a way of battle.
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