Thinking Beyond War

Civil-Military Relations and Why America Fails to Win the Peace

By: Isaiah Wilson

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Hardcover | 1 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Why was there a deliberate plan to fight the war in Iraq but none to win the peace? This question, which has caused such confusion and consternation among the American public and been the subject of much political wrangling over the past two years, is the focus of Lt. Col. Isaiah Wilson’s investigation. Director of the American politics, policy, and strategy program at West Point, Wilson points to a flaw in the government’s definition of when, how, and for what reasons the United States intervenes abroad. It is a paradox in the American way of peace and war, he explains, that harkens back to America’s war loss in Vietnam. The dilemma we face today in Iraq, the author says, is the result of a flaw in how we have viewed the war from its inception, and Wilson reminds us that Iraq is just the latest, albeit the most poignant and tragic, case in point. His exploration of this paradox calls for new organizational and operational approaches to America’s intervention policy. In challenging current western societal military lexicon and doctrine, Wilson offers new hope and practical solutions to overcome the paradox once and for all.

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"Thinking Beyond War is an exceptional examination of the historical, cultural, structural, and strategic underpinnings of the failure of the Bush administration to understand what victory in Iraq would look like and to fashion a viable plan to achieve it. In this penetrating analysis of US war making and its shortfalls since World War II, Isaiah Wilson reminds us that peace requires much more than operational military triumph and takes years to achieve even in the best of scenarios." - Peter R. Mansoor, Author of Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

"Colonel Isaiah 'Ike' Wilson III is one of the brightest strategic thinkers in the U.S. army. As a soldier-scholar he has both served in Iraq and astutely examined what went wrong and sometimes right. In Thinking beyond War he offers us the fruit of years of first-hand study and careful analysis. He urges the U.S. military to get beyond its narrow focus on winning battles and to think more broadly about how to convert battlefield success into long-term political victories. Thinking beyond War offers an invaluable guide to thinking about these difficult yet vitally important issues." - Max Boot, Senior Fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of War Made New and The Savage Wars of Peace

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Author's Note #1	p. xi
Author's Note #2	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxix
Beyond War	p. 1
The Paradox of the American Way of War and Peace	p. 3
Modern War Revisited: Three Generations of Modern War-Fare	p. 21
The Dawn of the Postmodern Age of War	p. 35
On Planning: A New Methodology for Postmodern War-Fare	p. 59
Lessons in Postmodern War: Civil-Military Operations in Northern Iraq	p. 95
The Liberation and Reconstruction of Northern Iraq	p. 97
Patronage Politics in Northern Iraq: The Case of Tribal Engagement in Northern Iraq, June 2003-March 2004	p. 115
Lessons Gathered but Not Yet Learned	p. 149
My Iraq War: A Postscript	p. 151
Whither Mosul? The Story of Transition Failure and the Rise and Fall of Northern Iraq	p. 173
Past as Prologue	p. 199
Fighting to Change, Changing to Fight: The Lessons of Iraq on Army Transformation, Under Construction	p. 201
Educating Holistic Warriors	p. 229
Epilogue: No More Iraqs?	p. 253
Note on Sources	p. 261
Notes	p. 269
Index	p. 291
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