Why We're Losing the War on Terror

ISBN: 9780745641973 出版年：2013 页码：192 Paul Rogers Wiley

Retired US General Barry McCaffrey, returning from a recent visit to Iraq, provided an upbeat assessment of the six-year war there claiming that the United States is now clearly in the end game in that theatre. He judged that there was a dramatic and growing momentum for economic and security stability which is unlikely to be reversible. If this proves to be the case, the US will have rescued the situation from near disaster. The other counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan is yet to reach such a tipping point. With these apparent changes in fortune, the timing and thrust of Paul Rogers’s Why We’re Losing the War on Terror is perhaps unfortunate. The question in his title encapsulates the core problem with the book, and not just because it implies a subjective pre-conception that the ‘war on terror’ (whatever that is) is lost. Rogers’ approach is to chronicle recent events in lieu of analysis. This also evades the necessity to focus on the