IRAQ AND THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM: Introduction

Gardner, Lloyd C.; Young, Marilyn B.

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“…The most exposed single analogy of recent times is the utilisation of the Vietnam War to draw parallels with specific elements of the Iraq War (2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010). In parts, this has been superficial and, in some quarters, trite, however the virulence of debate surrounding Vietnam/Iraq comparisons reawakened an interest in the application of analogical reasoning and 'lesson-learning' from the past (Dumbrell and Ryan, 2007;Gardner and Young, 2007). Policymakers, academics and media commentators were divided as to whether Iraq represented a haunting repeat of the quagmire in Vietnam (Purdum, 2005;Brigham, 2006;Campbell, 2007), or whether Vietnam comparisons were a specious analogy to draw given a perceivable gulf in context and conduct (Record and Terrill, 2004;Lomperis, 2006).…”

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Parallels, prescience and the past: Analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics

Mumford

2014

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Analogical reasoning has held a perpetual appeal to policymakers who have often drafted in historical metaphor as a mode of informing decision making. However, this article contends that since the beginning of the 'War on Terror', we have arguably seen the rise of a more potent form of analogy, namely ones that are selected because they fulfil an ideological function. Analogical reasoning as a tool of rational decision making has increasingly become replaced by analogical reasoning as a tool of trenchant ideologically informed policy justification. This article addresses three key areas that map out the importance of analogical reasoning to an understanding of developments in contemporary international politics: the relationship between history and politics, in intellectual and policy terms; a critical assessment of the appeal that analogical reasoning holds for policymakers; and the development of a rationale for a more effective use of history in international public policy making.

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Section: Today Is Yesterday Tomorrow: the Relationship Between Histormentioning

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Parallels, prescience and the past: Analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics

Mumford

2014

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“…Outside of geography, there have been important critical contributions from history, political science and elsewhere in examining especially the echoes of the imperial and colonial past in contemporary American military interventions in the Middle East (Dodge 2003, 2009; Gardner and Young 2007; Little 2002; Ryan 2007; Young 2009). And the notion of colonial legacies reverberating through our contemporary moment has been developed by geographers too.…”

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Closing the Neoliberal Gap: Risk and Regulation in the Long War of Securitization

Morrissey

2010

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john.morrissey@nuigalway.ie Abstract: When US military commanders refer today to the "long war", they could more instructively refer to the "long war of securitization", involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a therapeutic logic of preemption and an endgame of protection from global economic risk. Since the early 1980s, the centrepiece of US foreign policy has been the securitization of the Persian Gulf region, with the newly-created United States Central Command (CENTCOM) given the task of effecting a grand strategy that has subsequently been consistently based on two interrelated tactics: first, the discursive identification and positing of the Persian Gulf as a precarious yet pivotal geoeconomic space, essential to US and global economic health; and secondly the enactment of a dual military-economic securitization strategy to secure, patrol and regulate designated "vital interests" in the region. With the rhetorical power of "risk management" perhaps more palpable today than ever, this paper reflects on the neoliberal discourses of "risk" and "regulation" that sustain a "long war" in which the perennial potentiality of a volatile global political economy necessitates securitization by US military force.

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The Paradox of Leaving: Four Historical Case Studies on the Dynamics of Exit Strategies

Amersfoort

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Jong

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IRAQ AND THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM: Introduction

Cited by 3 publications

References 1 publication

Parallels, prescience and the past: Analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics

Parallels, prescience and the past: Analogical reasoning and contemporary international politics

Closing the Neoliberal Gap: Risk and Regulation in the Long War of Securitization

The Paradox of Leaving: Four Historical Case Studies on the Dynamics of Exit Strategies

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