A nation must think before it acts.
Peter Beinart, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, New York: Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
Dereek Leebaert, Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
Dominic Tierney, How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War, Boston: Little, Brown, 2010.
Gideon Rose, How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle, New York: Harper Collins, 2010.