Jason Brownlee

Force Without Authority explores why the United States' costliest military operations since Vietnam fell short, influencing both Republican and Democratic leaders towards withdrawal and retrenchment. Covering the sweep of US armed interventions since the end of the Cold War, Jason Brownlee sets America's post-9/11 invasions in a thirty-five-year foreign-policy arc—from caution to bravado—and back. The al-Qaeda attacks suspended America's traditional...