The American way of war in the twenty-first century

Democracies and Small Wars

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 71-81

  Mahnken, Thomas G ^a  

^a US NAVAL WAR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905532856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203485422     Document Type: Chapter

References (27)

1. Robert B.Strassler (ed.), The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to The Peloponnesian War (New York: Free Press, 1996), pp. 45-6, 81-2.
2. Julian S.Corbett, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1911), p. 38.
3. Basil H.Liddell Hart, The British Way in Warfare (New York: Macmillan, 1933).
4. Michael I.Handel, The Evolution of Israeli Strategy: The Psychology of Insecurity and the Quest for Absolute Security', in Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox, and Alvin Bernstein (eds.), The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
5. Brian M.Linn, 'The American Way of War Revisited', Journal of Military History, Vol. 66, No. 2 (April 2002), pp. 501-33.
6. Max Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (New York:Basic Books, 2002).
7. David R.Woodward, Trial by Friendship: Anglo-American Relations, 1917-1918 (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1993), pp. 213-4.
8. For alternative views, see Eliot A.Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (New York: Free Press, 2002), pp. 175-84;
9. Andrew Krepinevich, The Army and Vietnam (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).
10. George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed (New York: Knopf, 1998), p. 389.
11. Kent Roberts Greenfield, American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration (Malabar, FL:Krieger, 1982), Ch. 2.
12. See, for example, Edward N.Luttwak, 'Where are the Great Powers?', Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 4 (July/Aug. 1994);
13. Edward N.Luttwak, 'From Vietnam to Desert Fox: Civil-Military Relations in Modern Democracies', Survival, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 1999);
14. Charles Moskos, 'Grave Decision: When Americans Accept Casualties', Chicago Tribune, Dec. 12, 1998, p. 25.
15. Peter D.Feaver and Christopher Gelpi, 'How Many Deaths are Acceptable? A Surprising Answer', Washington Post, Nov. 7, 1999, p. B3.
16. See, for example, Michael E.O'Hanlon, 'A Flawed Masterpiece', Foreign Affairs, Vol. 81, No. 3 (May/June 2002), p. 57.
17. See, for example, the essays in Michael Pillsbury (ed.), Chinese Views of Future Warfare (Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 1997).
18. Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (New York: W.W.Norton, 1995), p. 192.
19. Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999), p. 333.
20. See, for example, William J.Perry, 'Desert Storm and Deterrence', Foreign Affairs, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Fall 1991), pp. 66-82;
21. Andrew F.Krepinevich, 'Cavalry to Computer', The National Interest, No. 37 (Fall 1994), pp. 30-42;
22. Eliot A.Cohen, 'A Revolution in Warfare', Foreign Affairs, Vol. 75, No. 2 (March/April 1996), pp. 37-54.
23. Benjamin S.Lambeth, NATO's Air War for Kosovo: A Strategic and Operational Assessment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2001), p. 108.
24. Thomas G.Mahnken and James R.FitzSimonds, The Limits of Transformation: Officer Attitudes Toward the Emerging Revolution in Military Affairs (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 2002).
25. Eliot A.Cohen and Thomas A.Keaney, Gulf War Air Power Survey: Summary Report (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1993).
26. Eliot A.Cohen, The Mystique of Air Power', Foreign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1994), p. 109.
27. Jason Sherman, 'Dream Work', Armed Forces Journal International (May 2000), p. 25.