Anatomy of Victory
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Anatomy of Victory

Why the United States Triumphed in World War II, Fought to a Stalemate in Korea, Lost in Vietnam, and Failed in Iraq

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Anatomy of Victory

Why the United States Triumphed in World War II, Fought to a Stalemate in Korea, Lost in Vietnam, and Failed in Iraq

About this book

This groundbreaking book provides the first systematic comparison of America's modern wars and why they were won or lost. John D. Caldwell uses the World War II victory as the historical benchmark for evaluating the success and failure of later conflicts. Unlike WWII, the Korean, Vietnam, and Iraqi Wars were limited, but they required enormous national commitments, produced no lasting victories, and generated bitter political controversies.

Caldwell comprehensively examines these four wars through the lens of a strategic architecture to explain how and why their outcomes were so dramatically different. He defines a strategic architecture as an interlinked set of continually evolving policies, strategies, and operations by which combatant states work toward a desired end. Policy defines the high-level goals a nation seeks to achieve once it initiates a conflict or finds itself drawn into one. Policy makers direct a broad course of action and strive to control the initiative. When they make decisions, they have to respond to unforeseen conditions to guide and determine future decisions. Effective leaders are skilled at organizing constituencies they need to succeed and communicating to them convincingly. Strategy means employing whatever resources are available to achieve policy goals in situations that are dynamic as conflicts change quickly over time. Operations are the actions that occur when politicians, soldiers, and diplomats execute plans.

A strategic architecture, Caldwell argues, is thus not a static blueprint but a dynamic vision of how a state can succeed or fail in a conflict.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Part I: Strategic Architectures: Introduction
  5. Part II: World War II
  6. Chapter 1: Battle of Britain
  7. Chapter 2: Battle of the Atlantic
  8. Chapter 3: Invasion of Russia
  9. Chapter 4: Battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch
  10. Chapter 5: Battles of Midway and Guadalcanal
  11. Chapter 6: Strategic Bombing Offensive
  12. Chapter 7: Invasion of Italy
  13. Chapter 8: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
  14. Chapter 9: Battle for the Rhine
  15. Chapter 10: Battle of Okinawa and the Bombing of Japan
  16. Chapter 11: The Strategic Architectures of World War II
  17. Part III: The Korean War
  18. Chapter 12: Battle of the Pusan Perimeter
  19. Chapter 13: Inchon—Operation Chromite
  20. Chapter 14: Crossing the 38th Parallel and Driving North to the Yalu
  21. Chapter 15: Operations Ripper and Killer
  22. Chapter 16: The Strategic Architectures of the Korean War
  23. Part IV: The Vietnam War
  24. Chapter 17: Battle of the Ia Drang Valley
  25. Chapter 18: Bombing Campaign and High-Tech Initiatives
  26. Chapter 19: The Pacification Program (1967–1968)
  27. Chapter 20: The Tet Offensive (1968)
  28. Chapter 21: Vietnamization
  29. Chapter 22: The Final Years (1969–1975)
  30. Chapter 23: The Strategic Architectures of the Vietnam War
  31. Part V: The Iraqi Wars
  32. Chapter 24: Iraqi War I, Persian Gulf War
  33. Chapter 25: Iraqi War II, Thirteen-Year Air Conflict
  34. Chapter 26: Iraqi War III, Invasion of Iraq
  35. Chapter 27: Iraqi War IV, the Insurgency and the Surge (2007–2008)
  36. Chapter 28: Iraqi War V, the Rise of ISIS
  37. Chapter 29: The Strategic Architectures of the Iraqi Wars
  38. Part VI: Strategic Architectures: The Endgame
  39. Acronyms andSelected Glossary
  40. Notes
  41. Selected Bibliography