The strategy of limited war has transformed the American approach
to the use of force and played a key role in U.S. foreign policy
since World War II. As the mainstay of containment it was designed
to deter and fight wars effectively at a tolerable cost and risk in
the nuclear age by providing the United States with a flexible and
controlled response to a variety of military threats. The strategy
met a severe challenge in the Vietnam war; it has nevertheless
continued to prevail as a doctrine, if not necessarily with its
former utility, by adapting to the changing domestic and
international environment after Vietnam. Robert E. Osgood
critically examines the success, ambiguities, and flaws of the
strategy in its expanding application to postwar military policy.
He interprets its impact on the Vietnam war and vice versa, extends
his analysis to the new challenges posed by changes in technology
and the military balance that affect U.S. security, and concludes
with a searching inquiry into the problems of limited war where its
utility as an instrument of foreign policy is now most in doubt:
the Third World.
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