A lack of realistic and achievable political strategy is exactly why the US hasn't won any of its major military conflicts since ww2.
They forgot that the role of the military is as a political instrument.
( possibly due to US hubris due to having such massive military and economic resources )
The role of the military is to achieve a political outcome via force of arms that can't be achieved via diplomacy or other means.
The US has failed to understand or focus on realistic political strategy. Or understand where the political centre of gravity in these countries are.
Instead they try and impose military/ tactical solutions. That's why they are losing in Ukraine, and will also lose when / if they fight in iran and taiwan.
The role of the military as a political tool was not implemented
US has forgotten to understand this... in Japan and Germany, they co-opted both the emperor, and bureaucracy and elites including many nazis and Japanese elites into their new government. These had support of most of the people.
In Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, cuba etc they tried to work with puppets and outliers to build an artificial power base. Of course it Failed.
All these countries had/ have political centres of gravity that the US refused to co-opt. They instead thought they could create their own power base via force of arms.
But without legitimacy in the eyes of the people this failed.
A lack of realistic and achievable political strategy is exactly why the US hasn't won any of its major military conflicts since ww2.
They forgot that the role of the military is as a political instrument.
( possibly due to US hubris due to having such massive military and economic resources )
The role of the military is to achieve a political outcome via force of arms that can't be achieved via diplomacy or other means.
The US has failed to understand or focus on realistic political strategy. Or understand where the political centre of gravity in these countries are.
Instead they try and impose military/ tactical solutions. That's why they are losing in Ukraine, and will also lose when / if they fight in iran and taiwan.
The role of the military as a political tool was not implemented
US has forgotten to understand this... in Japan and Germany, they co-opted both the emperor, and bureaucracy and elites including many nazis and Japanese elites into their new government. These had support of most of the people.
In Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, cuba etc they tried to work with puppets and outliers to build an artificial power base. Of course it Failed.
All these countries had/ have political centres of gravity that the US refused to co-opt. They instead thought they could create their own power base via force of arms.
But without legitimacy in the eyes of the people this failed.