The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War

The Inheritance: America's Military After Two Decades of War

Mara E. Karlin
$46.25
Publication Date: December 14th, 2021
Publisher:
Brookings Institution Press
ISBN:
9780815738459
Pages:
320
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Description

Exploring how the U.S. military can move beyond Iraq and Afghanistan

Despite its lengthy war fighting experience and high-technology weapons, the military is woefully unprepared for future wars because of a conflicted legacy of long involvement in war without end and uncertainty about the future security environment. But the United States cannot simply hit the reset button. If the U.S. military seeks to win in the future, it must acknowledge and reconcile with the inheritance of its long and failed wars. This book seeks to help them do so.

About the Author

Mara E. Karlin was director of Strategic Studies and associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Karlin previously served in national security roles for five U.S. secretaries of defense. She is the author of Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States.