Not Even Past

David Fitzgerald is a Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork, Ireland. His books include Learning to Forget: US Army Counterinsurgency Doctrine from Vietnam to Iraq (2013) and Obama, US Foreign Policy and the Dilemmas of Intervention (with David Ryan, 2014).David Ryan is Professor of Modern History at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of many books, including U.S. Foreign Policy and the Other, edited with Michael Cullinane (2015), and Frustrated Empire: US Foreign Policy from 9/11 to Iraq (2007).John M. Thompson is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich. His publications include Progressivism in America: Past, Present and Future (with David Woolner, 2016) and America's Transatlantic Turn: Theodore Roosevelt and the "Discovery" of Europe (with Hans Krabbendam, 2012).

• IntroductionPART I: BACKGROUNDChapter 1. How to Think About Ending WarsGideon RosePART II: VIETNAMChapter 2. The Importance of Being Popular: Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Domestic Support for the Vietnam WarSarah ThelenChapter 3. The Things They Carry: Vietnam and the Legacies of the American WarEdwin A. MartiniChapter 4. "His Epitaph Is Also Ours:" Robert McNamara, The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the Vietnam War's Contested Usable PastDavid KieranChapter 5. After the Fall of Saigon: Strategic Implications of America's Involvement in VietnamRobert K. BrighamPART III: IRAQ AND AFGHANISTANChapter 6. The Ironies of Overwhelming "Victory": Exits and the Dislocation of the Gulf WarDavid RyanChapter 7. Failing to End: Obama and IraqDavid Fitzgerald and David RyanChapter 8. A "Responsible End" to the Afghan War: The Politics and Pitfalls of Crafting "Success" NarrativesJeffrey H. MichaelsChapter 9. Flawed Afghanisation: Underestimating and Misunderstanding the TalibanAntonio GiustozziPART IV: THE CULTURAL AND STRATEGIC COSTS OF WAR IN THE EARLY 21ST CENTURYChapter 10. Changing the Subject: How the United States Responds to Strategic FailureAndrew J. BacevichChapter 11. How Wars Do Not End: The Challenges for 21st-Century US Foreign Policy and InterventionScott LucasChapter 12. Coming Home: Soldier Homecomings and the All-Volunteer Force in American Society and CultureDavid FitzgeraldChapter 13. How the United States Ends WarsMarilyn B. YoungIndex

"The accessible essays in this volume comprise a timely contribution to the current scholarship. The continued presence of the United States in Afghanistan makes it all the more salient." Sarah Kreps, Cornell University"Not Even Past is that rare edited collection where each successive essay holds to the standard of the rest, bringing with it insights and delights in every chapter. This book provides a very important and historically informed perspective." Jeffrey A. Engel, Southern Methodist University