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Lessons encountered : learning from the long war

Title: Lessons encountered : learning from the long war / edited by Richard D. Hooker, Jr., and Joseph J. Collins.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press, 2015.

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Description

xiv, 473 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

[This book] began as two questions from General Martin E. Dempsey, 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: What were the costs and benefits of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what were the strategic lessons of these campaigns? The Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University was tasked to answer these questions. The editors composed a volume that assesses the war and analyzes the costs, using the Institutes's considerable in-house talent and the dedication of the NDU Press team. The audience for this volume is senior officers, their staffs, and the students in joint professional military education courses--the future leaders of the Armed Forces. Other national security professionals should find it of great value as well. The volume begins with an introduction that addresses the difficulty of learning strategic lessons and a preview of the major lessons identified in the study. It then moves on to an analysis of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq from their initiation to the onset of the U.S. Surges. The study then turns to the Surgers themselves as tests of assessment and adaptation. The next part focuses on decisionmaking, implementation, and unity of effort. The volume then turns to the all-important issue of raising and mentoring indigenous security forces, the basis for the U.S. exit strategy in both campaigns. Capping the study is a chapter on legal issues that range from detention to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. The final chapter analyzes costs and benefits, dissects decisionmaking in both campaigns, and summarizes the lessons encountered. Supporting the volume are three annexes: one on the human and financial costs of the Long War and two detailed timelines for histories of Afghanistan and Iraq and the U.S. campaigns in those countries. The lessons encountered in Afghanistan and Iraq at the strategic level inform our understanding of national security decisionmaking, intelligence, the character of contemporary conflict, and unity of effort and command. They stand alongside the lessons of other wars and remind future senior officers that those who fail to learn from past mistakes are bound to repeat them. -- Book jacket flaps.

Alternative Title

Learning from the long war

Subject

Genre/Form

Case studies.
History.
Military history.

Note

"September 2015."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Initial planning and execution in Afghanistan and Iraq / Joseph J. Collins -- Strategic assessment and adaptation: The surges in Iraq and Afghanistan / Frank G. Hoffman and G. Alexander Crowther -- National-level coordination and implementation : How system attributes trumped leadership / Christopher J. Lamb and Megan Franco -- Raising and mentoring security forces in Afghanistan and Iraq / T.X. Hammes -- 9/11 and after: Legal issues, lessons, and irregular conflict / Nicholas Rostow and Harvey Rishikof -- Reflections on lessons encountered / Richard D. Hooker, Jr., and Joseph J. Collins -- Annexes -- A. The human and financial costs of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq / Sara Thannhauser and Christoff Luehrs -- B. Afghanistan timeline -- C. Iraq timeline -- About the contributors.

Call Number

JFE 17-7729

LCCN

2015030056

OCLC

921310633

Title

Lessons encountered : learning from the long war / edited by Richard D. Hooker, Jr., and Joseph J. Collins.

Publisher

Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Hooker, Richard D., Jr., editor.

Collins, Joseph J., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Lessons encountered (OCoLC)931686250

Gpo Item No.

0378-H-01

Sudoc No.

D 5.402:L 56/2

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7729

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