America’s way of war isn’t working | The U.S. may have the strongest military in the world, but repeated failures reflect a deeper flaw in its approach to military conflict.
Posted by GirasoleDE
America’s way of war isn’t working | The U.S. may have the strongest military in the world, but repeated failures reflect a deeper flaw in its approach to military conflict.
Posted by GirasoleDE
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*Submission statement*
This is a good example of [Maslow’s hammer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument): “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” It is now getting worse, because the hammer is in the hands of people, who are compulsively bragging about the size of the hammer.
I think what’s “not working” about American military campaigns is that the American people just don’t want to see them through. Whether it’s because they never supported the campaign to begin with or whether they lose interest over time, a lack of public support for continued operations can undermine the military completely. We were never going to topple the Iranian regime by bombing them for a couple of weeks, putting no boots on the ground, and then pausing for months to talk to them.
May have? Have there been any successes this century that I’m unaware of? Being most powerful doesn’t mean anything if you can’t achieve your goals.
have they tried maximizing lethality?
As the author points out, America’s way of war is 100% dictated by its politicians.
The military executes plans directed by their political masters.
Which include, but aren’t limited to, invading a landlocked country and then proceeding to antagonize every single one of its neighbors to the point we had to pay protection money to the very people we were fighting to deliver fuel to our troops.