Assessing War: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure - Hardcover

by Leo J. Blanken (Editor), Hy Rothstein (Editor), Jason J. Lepore (Editor)

Assessing War spans two centuries of US military history to examine the challenge of measuring progress in wartime. Expert contributors examine wartime assessment in both theory and practice, and through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas, and economics.

Author Biography

Leo J. Blanken is an associate professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the US Naval Postgraduate School and author of Rational Empires: Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion.

Hy Rothstein is a retired US Army colonel, a senior lecturer in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, and co-editor of Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America's Longest War.

Jason J. Lepore is an associate professor of economics at California Polytechnic State University.