How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle
- ISBN-10
- 1416590552
- ISBN-13
- 9781416590552
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-12-20
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Gideon Rose
Description
Argues that the failure of the United States to create successful peace settlements when ending the major wars of the twentieth century has only led to subsequent conflicts and new wars which attempt to resolve the issues of the previous war.
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