{"id":6067,"date":"2013-12-01T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:38:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:38:50","slug":"6067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2013\/12\/01\/6067\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Way to Lose a War: America in the Age of Unwinnable Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Right Way to Lose a War: America in the Age of Unwinnable Conflicts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Dominic Tierney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Thursday, December 5, 2013<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>4:30-5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall<\/p>\n<p>Swarthmore College<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/visitors.xml\">Directions<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6068\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6068   \" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Army's Top Marksmen Mentor Afghan National Army Rifle Range Instructors\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/12\/afghanistan_US_Army_flickr_isfmedia_CC-300x199.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">isafmedia via Flickr under Creative Commons license 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since 1945, most major American wars have ended in regret. The era of U.S. power has also been a time of military frustration, stalemate, and loss, in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. What should we do when a conflict becomes an unwinnable war? Can we cut our losses and leave without seeing everything we fought for crumble into ashes?<\/p>\n<p>The stakes are incredibly high. How wars end, and the U.S. exit strategy from conflict, may decide the fate of thousands of American soldiers, impact America&#8217;s reputation and global image, cast a long shadow over the home front, and shape the future of the allied country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1873 alignright\" alt=\"tierney\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2011\/02\/tierney.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based on interviews with dozens of leading generals, ambassadors, and secretaries of state, this book project provides a guide to handling military failure and escaping from a quagmire. The talk will explain how the United States can avert military disaster, negotiate with opponents, withdraw its troops, train local forces, bind the wounds of veterans, reconcile with enemies, and remember military loss in ways that foster national learning and renewal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Right Way to Lose a War: America in the Age of Unwinnable Conflicts Prof. Dominic Tierney Thursday, December 5, 2013 4:30-5:30 p.m. Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall Swarthmore College Directions Since 1945, most major American wars have ended in regret. The era of U.S. power has also been a time of military frustration, stalemate, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2013\/12\/01\/6067\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Right Way to Lose a War: America in the Age of Unwinnable Conflicts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,236,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175424863,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/175424863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}