America's Victories: Why America Wins Wars and Why They Will Win the War on Terror

by Larry Schweikart

Overview

Essays on America's military abilities by Larry Schweikart

America’s armed services are under attack. From college campuses to the floor of the Senate, the Iraq war is portrayed as a quagmire, the army is described as "broken," and our men and women in uniform are maligned as torturers.

In America’s Victories, Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just as he did in his acclaimed previous book, A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts through the distortions passed along by academia and the media.

Far from being a cruel, bloodthirsty nation, eager to acquire other people’s resources, American troops value the sanctity of life more than any military culture in history. This fundamental trait has led, over the last two centuries, to more humane treatment of prisoners, more daring POW rescues, and more effective operations than any comparable power.

America’s Victories explains how this culture of victory has endured through the darkest moments of World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and how it has helped our troops prove their critics wrong over and over, from the Battle of New Orleans under Andrew Jackson to the war in Afghanistan under Tommy Franks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780990364962
Publisher:	Winged Hussar Publishing
Publication date:	10/06/2015
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Larry Schweikart is the coauthor of A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror and is a professor of history at the University of Dayton. He has written more than twenty books on national defense, business, and financial history. Professor Schweikart lives in Centerville, Ohio, with his wife Dee, and his son, Adam.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 4

List of Figures 6

Foreword to 2015 Edition 7

Introduction 11

1 Gitmo, Gulags, and Great Raids 21

2 Learning from Loss 48

3 Citizens as Soldiers 75

4 Pushing Autonomy Down 106

5 If You Build It, We Will Win 135

6 A11 for One 176

7 Protesters Make Soldiers Better 200

Conclusion 245

Index 257