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Title: War and the Art of Governance

Subtitle: Consolidating Combat Success into Political Victory

Author: Nadia Schadlow

Narrator: Robin Rowan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

Success in war ultimately depends on the consolidation of political order. Nadia Schadlow argues that the steps needed to consolidate a new political order are not separate from war. They are instead an essential component of war and victory. The challenge of governance operations did not start with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US Army's involvement in the political and economic reconstruction of states has been central to all its armed conflicts from large-scale conventional wars to so-called irregular or counterinsurgency wars. Yet, US policymakers and military leaders have failed to institutionalize lessons on how to consolidate combat gains into desired political outcomes. War and the Art of Governance examines 15 historical cases of US Army military interventions, from the Mexican War through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Improving future outcomes will require US policymakers and military leaders to accept that plans, timelines, and resources must be shaped to reflect this reality before they intervene in a conflict, not after things go wrong.

The book is published by Georgetown University Press.

Critic Reviews:

"In this critically crafted must-read before we enter another war, Dr. Schadlow lays out the post-combat challenges...persuasively charting what history tells us is required for our military victories to achieve a better peace." (James Mattis, US Secretary of Defense)

"Quite simply, this is a timely and brilliant book." (David Johnson, Modern War Institute at West Point adjunct professor, Georgetown University)

"A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the underlying failures of the last 15 years and wants those searing experiences to better position US strategy in the future." (Frank Hoffmann, author of

Decisive Force: The American Way of War)

Members Reviews:

âIt is an opprobrious waste of lives if nothing better results."

Yogi Berra once pointed out, "In theory, theory should work in practice. In practice, it doesn't!" Nowhere does this truism apply more than in the mistaken theory espoused by both military and civilian leaders that the job of the military ends when the shooting stops. In "War and the Art of Governance", Nadia Schadlow does a masterful job of detailing the long history of American failures and successes in consolidating âcombat gains into desired political outcomes.â With each of the 15 examples Dr. Schadlow cites, beginning with the Mexican-American War, through to Iraq and Afghanistan, she addresses how the ever-present debate and angst over the role of the military versus the role of civilian authority in establishing post-conflict order typically cause (i) a failure to adequately plan for the âday after,â (ii) a lack of adequate resources to conduct such activities, (iii) a lack of unity of command, (iv) the lack of a cadre of people trained to execute such objectives and (v) a lack of retention of lessons learned and general expertise. The author acknowledges the theoretical concerns on both sides of the military/civilian authority debate, but points out, in case after case, that no other organization but the Army has the capacity, structure and understanding of the domain to map an organizationally seamless transition to a post-conflict stabilization.

With respect to the current wars in which the U.S.