{"product_id":"not-even-past-how-the-united-states-ends-wars-9781789202151","title":"Not Even Past: How the United States Ends Wars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eOffers 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tVietnam, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFrom the introduction:\u003cbr\u003e \tThe refusal to engage in historical thinking, that form of reflection deeply immersed in the US experience of war and intervention, means that this cultural amnesia is related to a strategic incoherence and, in these wars, the United States has failed in its strategic objectives because it did not define, precisely, what they were. If Vietnam was the tragedy, Iraq and Afghanistan were repeated failures. The objectives and the national interests were elusive beyond issues of credibility, identity, and revenge; the end point was undefined because it was not clear what the point was. What did the United States want from these wars? What did it want to leave behind?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[This is] an important study to begin to think about the strategic failures of the United States and a gateway for authors to make recommendations. There is no easy fix, and perhaps there is no answer... Instead of ending conflicts, the United States transitions into another phase or pretends otherwise.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of Military History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Fredrik Logevall\u003c\/strong\u003e, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Sarah Kreps\u003c\/strong\u003e, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eNot Even Past \u003cem\u003eis 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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Jeffrey A. Engel\u003c\/strong\u003e, Southern Methodist University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Ryan and David Fitzgerald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Vietnam\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Importance of Being Popular: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Domestic Support for the Vietnam War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSarah Thelen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Things They Carry: Vietnam and the Legacies of the American War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEdwin A. Martini\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e “His Epitaph Is Also Ours”: Robert McNamara, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the Vietnam War’s Contested Usable Past\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Kieran\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e After the Fall of Saigon: Strategic Implications of America’s Involvement in Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRobert K. Brigham\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Iraq and Afghanistan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Ironies of Overwhelming “Victory”: Exits and the Dislocation of the Gulf War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Ryan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eFailing to End: Obama and Iraq\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Fitzgerald and David Ryan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e A “Responsible End” to the Afghan War: The Politics and Pitfalls of Crafting “Success” Narratives\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJeffrey H. Michaels\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Flawed Afghanization: Underestimating and Misunderstanding the Taliban\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAntonio Giustozzi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: The Cultural and Strategic Costs of War in the Early Twenty-First Century\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Changing the Subject: How the United States Responds to Strategic Failure\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrew J. Bacevich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e How Wars Do Not End: The Challenges for Twenty-First Century US Foreign Policy and Intervention\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eScott Lucas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Coming Home: Soldier Homecomings and the All-Volunteer Force in American Society and Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Fitzgerald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e How the United States Ends Wars\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarilyn B. 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