A Military History
by Andrew J. Bacevich
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Andrew J. Bacevich offers a pointed reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Greater Middle East, combining his military background with political critique. The value is a clear, forceful through-line about patterns, costs, and consequences of prolonged intervention and an accessible voice that pushes against conventional strategic narratives. The main limitation is repetition and a tendency toward polemic: arguments recur and nuance sometimes gives way to broad judgment, so readers seeking balanced, detail-heavy archival work may be disappointed.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A searing reassessment of U.S. military policy in the Middle East over the past four decades from retired army colonel and New York Times bestselling author Andrew J. Bacevich, with a new afterword by the author From the end of World War II until 1980, virtually no American soldiers were killed in action whi...
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