Tag: American Military Might

NOVANEWS A Political Junkie  A fascinating recent study by Christopher Dougherty entitled "Why America Needs a New Way of War" at the Center for a New American Security or CNAS looks at a thought-provoking reality; what if the United States lost its next war.  While its so-called wins since the end of the Second World War have been, at the very least, contestable (think Korea, Vietnam and both Afghanistan and Iraq that have been dragging on for nearly two decades), this study looks at the implications of an American loss in a large-scale war with a great power, a battle that will be far different than the relatively small scale regional wars fought in the last half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century. There is no doubt that Americans (and many...