Mission Failure : America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era.

Cover -- Series -- Mission Failure -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. China, the Global Economy, and Russia -- A New Administration in a New World -- China and Human Rights -- Economics as Foreign Policy -- Russia: The Good Deed -- Russia: The Bad Deed -- 2. Humanitarian Intervention -- The Innovation -- Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda -- Bosnia -- Kosovo -- Famous Victories -- 3. The War on Terror and Afghanistan -- To the World Trade Center -- The War on Terror -- Afghanistan: Success -- Afghanistan: Failure -- Afghanistan: The Long Goodbye -- 4. Iraq -- From War to War -- From Success to Failure -- The Wars After the War -- The Home Front -- Exit and Reentry -- 5. The Middle East -- The Center of the World -- The Peace Process -- Land for War -- The Democracy Agenda -- The Arab Spring -- 6. The Restoration -- The End of the Post-​Cold War Order -- The Bubbles Burst -- The Rogues -- The Rise of China -- The Revenge of Russia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Mission Failure argues that, in the past 25 years, the U.S. military has turned to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political - and that this ideologically-driven foreign policy generally leads to failure.

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