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Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Paperback)
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Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Paperback)
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Investigates the causes,
conduct, and consequences of the recent American wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan Understanding the United States' wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan is essential to understanding the United States in the
first decade of the new millennium and beyond. These wars were
pivotal to American foreign policy and international relations.
They were expensive: in lives, in treasure, and in reputation. They
raised critical ethical and legal questions; they provoked debates
over policy, strategy, and war-planning; they helped to shape
American domestic politics. And they highlighted a profound
division among the American people: While more than two million
Americans served in Iraq and Afghanistan, many in multiple
deployments, the vast majority of Americans and their families
remained untouched by and frequently barely aware of the wars
conducted in their name, far from American shores, in regions about
which they know little. Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan gives us the first book-length expert historical
analysis of these wars. It shows us how they began, what they teach
us about the limits of the American military and diplomacy, and who
fought them. It examines the lessons and legacies of wars whose
outcomes may not be clear for decades. In 1945 few Americans could
imagine that the country would be locked in a Cold War with the
Soviet Union for decades; fewer could imagine how history would
paint the era. Understanding the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
begins to come to grips with the period when America became
enmeshed in a succession of "low intensity" conflicts in the Middle
East.
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