Other People's Wars : The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts - Brent L. Sterling

Other People's Wars

The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts

By: Brent L. Sterling

Paperback | 2 June 2021

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Other People's Wars explores key US efforts involving direct observation missions and post-conflict investigations throughout its history. Sterling shows how initiatives to learn from other nations' wars can yield significant benefits, emphasisizing comprehensive qualitative learning to foster better military preparedness and adaptability.

About the Author

Brent L. Sterling is an adjunct professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? What History Teaches Us about Strategic Barriers and International Security (Georgetown University Press, 2009). He has spent the past thirty years as a defense analyst, including positions at the Central Intelligence Agency and consulting firms that support the US Department of Defense.
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Other People's Wars: The US Military and the Challenge of Learning from Foreign Conflicts is an extraordinary contribution to community, college and university library Military Strategy and National/International Security collections and supplemental studies curriculums. * Midwest Book Review *
Military professionals - and, for that matter, interested amateurs - who seek to explore the issue of how the Yom Kippur War, particularly the issue of how the experience of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) during that war, moulded the armed forces of the United States are enthusiastically encouraged to consult Sterling's book, as are those professionals and amateurs concerned more broadly with the impact of foreign wars on these forces. * Israel Affairs *
[O]ther People's Wars captures the US military's historical experience methodically and with great clarity, purpose, and evidence. * Center for International Maritime Security *

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