The United States had a long tradition of military success from the Revolutionary War through World War II. American military art/science (strategy, operations, and tactics) is now a modern example of an institution in decline. The slide may have begun with the Korean War where that outcome might be described as ambiguous. The Vietnam War was a decade-long controversy at home and abroad. Iraq was conquered in days, and lost in years of occupation followed by abandonment. All those small wars in the Muslim world so far can only be described as serial failures. Modern American history is characterized by intervention and regime change and at the same time littered with the debris of military fiasco. Losing now seems to be chronic for Team America. Some brilliant operational or tactical episodes might be cited, but taken collectively, nothing midst the Muslim small wars of the past five decades suggests strategic success. Indeed, words like war, to say nothing of...(Read Full Article)