America’s military has no preordained right to victory on the battlefield.
Evidence
Jim Mattis Fires a Clear Warning Shot (War on the Rocks)
Categorization
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: American military reports were overly optimistic and non-critical. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 825; Overly optimistic judgments are not limited to military operations, and America’s military has no preordained right to victory. — Self-Deception and the ‘Conspiracy of Optimism’; U.S. military leaders failed to force their enemy to fight. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1991 (+1 more)
Related
- Overly optimistic judgments are not limited to military operations, and America’s military has no preordained right to victory. (similarity 0.88)
- U.S. military leaders failed to force their enemy to fight. (similarity 0.85)
Library Connections
- U.S. military leaders failed to force their enemy to fight.
#complicates(0.75) — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, 1991