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Not Even Past: How the United States Ends Wars

Not Even Past: How the United States Ends Wars

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Publisher Berghahn Books
Year 20/03/2020
Pages 286
Version paperback
Readership level General/trade
Language English
ISBN 9781789202250
Categories History of the Americas
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Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan: Taken together, these conflicts are the key to understanding more than a half century of American military history. In addition, they have shaped, in profound ways, the culture and politics of the United States-as well as the nations in which they have been fought. This volume brings together international experts on American history and foreign affairs to assess the cumulative impact of the United States' often halting and conflicted attempts to end wars. It offers essential perspectives on the Cold War and post-9/11 eras and explores the troubling implications of the American tendency to fight wars without end. "We have endless books on the origins of America's wars, but far fewer that examine the crucial question of how the conflicts are terminated. Not Even Past is therefore hugely welcome. Featuring lucid and penetrating essays by a stellar roster of scholars, the volume provides deep insights into one of the grand puzzles of the age: why the U.S. has so often failed to exit wars on its terms." * Fredrik Logevall, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University



"The accessible essays in this volume comprise a timely contribution to the current scholarship. The continued presence of the United States in Afghanistan makes it all the more salient." * Sarah Kreps, Cornell University



"Not Even Past is that rare edited collection where each successive essay holds to the standard of the rest, bringing with it insights and delights in every chapter. This book provides a very important and historically informed perspective." * Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University

Not Even Past: How the United States Ends Wars

Table of contents

Acknowledgments







Introduction



David Ryan and David Fitzgerald







Part I: Vietnam







Chapter 1. The Importance of Being Popular: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Domestic Support for the Vietnam War



Sarah Thelen







Chapter 2. The Things They Carry: Vietnam and the Legacies of the American War



Edwin A. Martini







Chapter 3. "His Epitaph Is Also Ours": Robert McNamara, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the Vietnam War's Contested Usable Past



David Kieran







Chapter 4. After the Fall of Saigon: Strategic Implications of America's Involvement in Vietnam



Robert K. Brigham







Part II: Iraq and Afghanistan







Chapter 5. The Ironies of Overwhelming "Victory": Exits and the Dislocation of the Gulf War



David Ryan







Chapter 6. Failing to End: Obama and Iraq



David Fitzgerald and David Ryan







Chapter 7. A "Responsible End" to the Afghan War: The Politics and Pitfalls of Crafting "Success" Narratives



Jeffrey H. Michaels







Chapter 8. Flawed Afghanization: Underestimating and Misunderstanding the Taliban



Antonio Giustozzi







Part III: The Cultural and Strategic Costs of War in the Early Twenty-First Century







Chapter 9. Changing the Subject: How the United States Responds to Strategic Failure



Andrew J. Bacevich







Chapter 10. How Wars Do Not End: The Challenges for Twenty-First Century US Foreign Policy and Intervention



Scott Lucas







Chapter 11. Coming Home: Soldier Homecomings and the All-Volunteer Force in American Society and Culture



David Fitzgerald







Chapter 12. How the United States Ends Wars



Marilyn B. Young







Index

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