Why America Keeps Losing 'Small Wars'

October 16, 2006

Jeffrey Record, professor of strategy at the U.S. Air War College, traces America's failures in small wars to our unique strategic culture.

This article was originally published in The Baltimore Sun, October 15, 2006, and is available in its entirety here:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.smallwars15oct15,0,5948046.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines


Jeffrey Record is a professor of strategy at the U.S. Air War College and a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy. He is the author of the Cato Institute analysis "The American Way of War" and the forthcoming book Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win. These views are his own.

Posted by coalition at October 16, 2006 09:58 AM

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