Michael O’Hanlon holds the Phil Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy at Brookings, where he also is director of research and director of the Talbott Center in the Foreign Policy program. He teaches at Columbia and Georgetown universities and elsewhere. Earlier in his career, O’Hanlon worked for the Congressional Budget Office, the Peace Corps, the “gravity group” at Princeton University, and dairy farms in upstate New York. He is the author of some 20 books, most recently The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint (Yale, 2021).

This interesting, thoughtful and well-written work … is fairly up-to-date on detail, and its operational focus on strategy will please many readers.

• ContentsPreface to the Updated EditionPreface and Acknowledgments1 The American Civil War2 World War I3 World War II4 Korea and Vietnam5 America’s Wars in the Middle East since 19906 Three LessonsNotesIndex

Michael O’Hanlon holds the Phil Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy at Brookings, where he also is director of research and director of the Talbott Center in the Foreign Policy program. He teaches at Columbia and Georgetown universities and elsewhere. Earlier in his career, O’Hanlon worked for the Congressional Budget Office, the Peace Corps, the “gravity group” at Princeton University, and dairy farms in upstate New York. He is the author of some 20 books, most recently The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint (Yale, 2021).

This interesting, thoughtful and well-written work … is fairly up-to-date on detail, and its operational focus on strategy will please many readers.

• ContentsPreface to the Updated EditionPreface and Acknowledgments1 The American Civil War2 World War I3 World War II4 Korea and Vietnam5 America’s Wars in the Middle East since 19906 Three LessonsNotesIndex