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The Day After asks why America has so often won the war but lost the peace that followed. Brendan Gallagher's answers are correct and timeless: Postwar is harder than war. Beware of magical thinking. Learn from history. His book is a good reference for heads of state, scholars, and soldiers. -- Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, US Army (Ret.), author of <I>Knife Fights</I> A thought-provoking, intensively-researched, and compelling account (and cautionary tale) of the enormous challenges of the 'post-conflict' phases of America's major post-9/11 interventions-by a true soldier-scholar who served on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and then carefully studied those conflicts. -- General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) The Day After is a searing indictment of American strategic incompetence-a tale of a musclebound giant repeatedly unable to transform military victory into durable political success. Through painstaking case studies of recent interventions, Brendan R. Gallagher shows that the main cause of the problem is national leaders who simply refuse to confront tough choices or engage in disciplined postwar planning. This book will make you angry-and it should. -- Gideon Rose, author of <I>How Wars End</I>

Brendan Gallagher is well placed to write this policy-focused volume, which blends personal experience and academic reflection based on interviews with decision-makers. * Choice * Leaders at all levels have something to gain from The Day After as we enter an increasingly unstable world. * Proceedings * Gallagher deserves credit for his thought-provoking argument and use of numerous primary source materials that help to broaden our contextual knowledge and bring to light unique insights from those in office during these conflicts. * H-War * The elegance of the tactical-operational-strategic framework for understanding war lies in simplicity. The book's concise and narrowly focused coverage of each of conflicts allows readers to understand the application of the framework. * Michigan War Studies Review * The fruit of a successful Princeton University PhD dissertation, the book uses the lens of prewar planning for postwar conditions to examine four recent limited wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and Libya. He discovers dismayingly similar mistakes across the four cases and the Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden-Harris administrations that made them, suggesting that there are systemic issues beyond the idiosyncrasies of individual decision makers and the challenges presented by particular countrie * US Army War College Quarterly Parameters *

Brendan Gallagher is well placed to write this policy-focused volume, which blends personal experience and academic reflection based on interviews with decision-makers. * Choice *

Leaders at all levels have something to gain from The Day After as we enter an increasingly unstable world. * Proceedings * Brendan Gallagher is well placed to write this policy-focused volume, which blends personal experience and academic reflection based on interviews with decision-makers. * Choice *

The Day After is a searing indictment of American strategic incompetence-a tale of a musclebound giant repeatedly unable to transform military victory into durable political success. Through painstaking case studies of recent interventions, Brendan R. Gallagher shows that the main cause of the problem is national leaders who simply refuse to confront tough choices or engage in disciplined postwar planning. This book will make you angry-and it should. -- Gideon Rose, author of <I>How Wars End</I> A thought-provoking, intensively-researched, and compelling account (and cautionary tale) of the enormous challenges of the 'post-conflict' phases of America's major post-9/11 interventions-by a true soldier-scholar who served on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan and then carefully studied those conflicts. -- General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) The Day After asks why America has so often won the war but lost the peace that followed. Brendan Gallagher's answers are correct and timeless: Postwar is harder than war. Beware of magical thinking. Learn from history. His book is a good reference for heads of state, scholars, and soldiers. -- Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, US Army (Ret.), author of <I>Knife Fights</I>

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Brendan R. Gallagher is a US Army lieutenant colonel in the infantry who has completed seven tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, including multiple deployments with the 75th Ranger Regiment. He received the General George C. Marshall award as the top US graduate at the Army Command and General Staff College, and is currently a battalion commander. He holds a PhD in public and international affairs from Princeton.

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