Outmaneuvered: America's tragic encounter with warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan

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The vast majority of these have ended in failure, or something close to it. Why has the US been so ineffective, given the fact that the American armed forces are universally recognized as the best in the world? This is the key question James Warren answers here in Outmaneuvered.

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