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Today's protracted asymmetrical conflicts confuse attempts to measure progress, often appealing politics and wishful thinking to replace objective analysis. In Assessing Battle, military services historians, social experts, and military officers explore how observers have examined the trajectory of conflict in American conflicts from the Seven Years' Battle through the conflict in Afghanistan. Drawing on ages of acquired know-how, the contributors study wartime analysis in both theory and practice and, through substitute dimensions of analysis such as justice and proportionality, the conflict of ideas and economics. This group of distinguished writers grapples with both classic and irregular wars and rising aspects of discord, such as cyberwar and land building, that enhance the complexities of the present day threat environment. The volume ends with recommendations for experts on best techniques and will be offering sobering conclusions about the difficulties of assessing conflict without politicization or self-delusion. Covering conflicts from the 18th hundred years to today, Examining War blends centered advice and a distinctively broad set of case studies to ponder vital questions about warfare's past and its own future. The e book carries a foreword by Gen. George W. Casey Jr. (USA, Ret.), previous chief of staff of the US Army and previous commander, Multi-National Make - Iraq.
