Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich.
Speaker 1: A new historical book is being released this month. It's
Speaker 1: called Out Maneuvered, America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare From Vietnam
Speaker 1: to Afghanistan. The author is James A. Warren. There's no
Speaker 1: question that America has led the world in war fighting
Speaker 1: over the last couple of centuries. But historian and foreign
Speaker 1: policy analyst James Warren is looking at the failures that
Speaker 1: occurred from Vietnam to Afghanistan, and he makes a very
Speaker 1: strong argument that misguided foreign policy, ineffective intelligence, and lack
Speaker 1: of military options on the ground have led to wars
Speaker 1: with endless fighting and either stalemates or actual loss in conflict.
Speaker 1: The author points out that many politicians and leaders began
Speaker 1: ignoring the realities of war in the nineteen sixties, wars
Speaker 1: that pitted the United States not against harsh political systems,
Speaker 1: but in uphill struggles against religion and ideology, where the
Speaker 1: old idea of nation building just doesn't cut it. Outmaneuvered
Speaker 1: America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare From Vietnam to Afghanistan a
Speaker 1: new book by historian James Warren. The book Club wz
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