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Military Power Is Insufficient: Learning from Failure in Afghanistan

Both categorically (the Afghan state collapsed) and by the military's own metrics (billions spent on ultimately ineffective Afghan security forces), American ...

Military Power Is Insufficient: Learning from Failure in Afghanistan

Military leaders should heed three lessons: (1) military strategy derives from political will, (2) poor strategy leads to compromises that mar the military ...

In 2024, the U.S. Military Is Weak…and That Should Scare You

By the end of this year, it will shrink further, to 445,000. Since 2011, the service has lost 121,000 troops, 22 percent of its force. The ...

National Defense Commission: Pentagon has 'insufficient' forces ...

The Pentagon's current National Defense Strategy is out of date, America's military is inappropriately structured and the US industrial base is “grossly ...

Military Power Is Insufficient: Learning from Failure in Afghanistan

Military Power Is Insufficient: Learning from Failure in Afghanistan. Bolton, John Q. Military Review; Fort Leavenworth Vol. 103, Iss. 1, (Jan/Feb 2023): 63-75.

Declining U.S. Military Strength Reveals a Deeper Leadership Crisis

Shortfalls in capacity and capability leave our military weaker today than at any point since we began publishing our report 10 years ago.

Problems of Predominance: Implications of the U.S. military advantage

Nuclear weapons are the most effective option in that regard. Just a few of them would be sufficient to wreck a conventional force operation of the sort that ...

Why military power is no longer enough | Joseph Nye | The Guardian

For most of today's great powers, the use of force would jeopardise their economic objectives. Even non-democratic countries that feel moral ...

Milley Says Investments in Military Capabilities Are Paying Off

The U.S. military is the most lethal and capable armed force in the world because previous administrations and Congresses made the ...

'the Uses Of Military Power' | Give War A Chance | FRONTLINE - PBS

When it is necessary for our troops to be committed to combat, we must commit them, in sufficient numbers and we must support them, as effectively and ...

Why China Cannot Challenge the US Military Primacy - Air University

US military power is based on the deterrence policy of punishment and denial. Punishment, according to John Mearsheimer, involves threatening to ...

Military Readiness | U.S. GAO

Nearly 2 decades of conflict has degraded US military readiness. To adapt to growing threats posed by major powers (such as China and Russia) and other ...

One War Is Not Enough: Strategy and Force Planning for Great ...

A quiet revolution in American defense strategy is currently underway. The U.S. military is no longer focusing on combating rogue states, ...

Is Military Power Becoming Obsolete? by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to political and economic order as oxygen is to breathing: little noticed ...

The Bend of Power | How the U.S. military can overcome the ...

In its new role as guarantor of the international order, the U.S. armed forces became the hard-power foundation of global security -- which protected and ...

Why did a military superpower fail in Afghanistan? - The Conversation

The misuse of military power in counterterrorism ... Boots-on-the-ground military forces aren't good at nation-building or democracy-fostering.

Too Much World, Not Enough Army - AUSA

This change in the world catches the Army in a declining force structure, with troubling levels of readiness and too many idling weapons ...

Analysis: How Afghan war showed limits of US military power

Karl Eikenberry, a retired Army lieutenant general with a rare combination of high-level military and diplomatic experience in Afghanistan, said ...

The Limits of Victory: Evaluating the Employment of Military Power

... Military Power.” The ... First, the statesman is never endowed with sufficient information to determine endstates with full clarity.

Bad Idea: Relying on "Integrated Deterrence" Instead of Building ...

While the U.S. should employ all tools available, the most certain means of deterring conflict is to build sufficient military power in concert ...