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Author Pat Proctor's newest offering,
Lessons Unlearned:
The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, is coming to bookshelves in early 2020.
Lessons Unlearned is based on exhaustive archival
research and numerous interviews with former senior leaders of
the Army, including two former Chiefs of Staff of the Army. The
book examines the question of why--on the eve of the War on
Terror--the Army ignored the lessons of its 1990s low-intensity
conflict interventions--most notably in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia,
and Kosovo--and instead continued its transformation toward an
ever greater capacity to fight high-intensity conflicts. But
Lessons Unlearned also asks why the U.S. Army is making the
same mistake again--ignoring the lessons of the wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq as it returns to its "core competencies" of
large scale combat operations.
Lessons Unlearned will be published by the
University of Missouri Press. |
