Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era
- ISBN-10
- 0190469471
- ISBN-13
- 9780190469474
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-03-10
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Michael Mandelbaum
Description
"In Mission Failure, Mandelbaum argues that, in the past 25 years, U.S. foreign policy has undergone a significant shift. Historically, U.S. foreign policy was oriented primarily toward threat reduction, but the U.S. military has turned in recent years to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political. Mandelbaum argues that ideologically-driven foreign policy--that which seeks to reconstruct societies along Western lines--generally leads to mission failure"--
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