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Lucid and entertaining... A provocative analysis of why Americans love some wars and hate others. - Kirkus Reviews Highly recommended. - Choice Writing in colloquial style, this college professor accessibly frames questions arising from Iraq and Afghanistan about why victories have often been followed by occupations. - Booklist Tierney's is a welcome voice in the trade press literature on American wars. He captures the essence of America's history of warfare and presents it in a digestible, yet sophisticated and historically rich way... Interesting, engaging, compelling, and even entertaining to a broader audience. - Jon Western, Mt. Holyoke College [Tierney's] work here will be a useful addition to the literature of culture and war. - Library Journal A great theme, beautifully written, and compellingly organized... [It's] an important contribution to a national debate over the war in Afghanistan which is only gathering steam. - James Dobbins, former United States ambassador to the European Union and current director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at RAND

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Dominic Tierney is an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and an official correspondent at the Atlantic. He is the author of Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics and FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle That Divided America.

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