Christopher Preble on the Myth of the Better War
In Wrong Turn, Col. Gian Gentile challenges the widely accepted idea that enlightened generals and better tactics improved America's counterinsurgency wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and now Afghanistan. He makes a compelling case, Christopher Preble notes in his review, but the myth of the better war waged by better men keeps getting used to rally the American people to support foreign interventions that seemed lost.
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