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Vol. 43 No. 4 • Winter 2013-14 FEATURES Special Commentary 7 What the QDR Ought to Say about Landpower Francis G. Hoffman American Power in Transition 15 The True Tragedy of American Power 27 Redirecting US Diplomacy Isaiah Wilson James E. Goodby and Confusing Force with Power Ken Weisbrode Thinking Globally, Acting Regionally 35 Rebalancing US Military Power Anna Simons Changing How We Advise & Partner Fighting Irregular Fighters 45 Is the Law of Armed 57 Defeating Violent Nonstate Actors Conflict Outdated? Robert J. Bunker Sibylle Scheipers Optimizing Landpower's Role Delegitimizing Irregular Fighters 67 Confronting Africa's Sobels Robert L. Feldman and Michel Ben Arrous Soldiers by Day, Rebels by Night Conflict by Other Means 77 Waging Financial War 87 The Coming Financial Wars David J. Katz Juan Zarate Coercing Friends & Enemies Retaining the US Advantage 99 Economic Statecraft: China in Africa Douglas W. Winton Leveraging Economic Growth Preparing for Netwars 111 Repurposing Cyber Command Frank J. Cilluffo and Joseph R. Clark Operationalizing Cyber Of Note 119 A War Examined: Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 Kevin C. Benson Policy, Strategy, & War Planning 2 Parameters 43(4) Winter 2013-14 DEPARTMENTS 5 From the Editor 173 Article Index, Vol. 43, 2013 125 Commentaries and Replies 125 On “Regionally Aligned Forces: 128 On “Strategic Landpower in the Business Not as Usual” Indo-Asia-Pacific” Richard H. Sinnreich Jeong Lee The Authors Respond 131 On "Strategic Landpower in the Indo-Asia-Pacific" 135 On “Imbalance in the James D. Perry Taiwan Strait” John R. Deni Replies David Lai Dennis V. Hickey Replies 138 On “US Options in Syria” Nathan Finney 141 Book Reviews Armed Nonstate Groups 141 Global Security Upheaval: Armed Nonstate 144 The Complexity of Modern Groups Usurping State Stability Functions Asymmetric Warfare By Robert Mandel By Max G. Manwaring Reviewed by José de Arimatéia da Cruz Reviewed by Robert J. Bunker 145 Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and 148 New Security Challenges in Asia Ideology of a Militant Islamist Edited by Michael Wills and Group 2005-2012 Robert M. Hathaway By Stig Jarle Hansen Reviewed by Jeong Lee Reviewed byRichard J. Norton Policy, Terror, & Espionage 150 Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the 152 Intelligence Elsewhere: Spies and Soul of the Obama Presidency Espionage Outside the Anglosphere By Daniel Klaidman Edited by Philip H.J. Davies and Reviewed by W. Andrew Terrill Kristian C. Gustafson Review by Joseph Becker 153 Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001 By Milo Jones and Philippe Silberzahn Reviewed by W. Ross Clark Strategic Leadership in Wartime 156 The Men Who Lost America: British 158 On the Precipice: Stalin, the Red Army Leadership, the American Revolution, Leadership and the Road to Stalingrad, and the Fate of the Empire 1931-1942 By Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy By Peter Mezhiritsky Reviewed by James D. Scudieri Reviewed by Stephen Blank 159 The Swamp Fox: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion By Scott D. Aiken Reviewed by Jill Sargent Russell Content 3 New Perspectives on Vietnam 162 Kill Anything That Moves: The Real 164 Vietnam Labyrinth: Allies, Enemies, and American War in Vietnam Why the US Lost the War By Nick Turse By Tran Ngoc Chau, with Ken Fermoyle Reviewed by William Thomas Allison Reviewed by William Thomas Allison 165 Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia By Ira A. Hunt, Jr. Reviewed by David Fitzgerald Revisiting the Great War 168 The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten 169 Winning and Losing on the Western Front: Generation and Their Forgotten World War The British Third Army and the Defeat of By Richard Rubin Germany in 1918 Reviewed by Michael S. Neiberg By Jonathan Boff Reviewed by Dean A. Nowowiejski New Award to Recognize Contributors We would like to take this opportunity to announce a new award to recognize the author (or authors) who made the most significant contribution to the theme of Strategic Landpower in a given volume of the Quarterly. Our Editorial Board will nominate the winner(s) from those articles published by the journal within a given volume year. The award will be presented by the Commandant of the US Army War College, and will include a certificate and cash prize. More details will be forthcoming in the next issue of the Quarterly. From the Editor eaders will want to note the edifying, if contentious, exchange between two distinguished soldier-scholars, Charles Dunlap and RConrad Crane. Each holds strong views regarding the assump- tions and attendant expectations that have underpinned and continue to shape the American way of fighting. We also wish to draw readers’ attention to the thoughtful responses we received to our “Women in Battle” forum (Summer 2013), and the authors’ replies. Our first forum looks at four “Dilemmas for US Strategy.” One factor that makes formulating strategy difficult, especially for a global power, is that policy choices in one region can reduce alternatives in another. David Sorenson’s “US Options in Syria” weighs America’s mili- tary and nonmilitary options against the goal of containing the Syrian civil war, noting that the failure of the current containment strategy could lead to dire consequences for the region. In “Pitfalls in Egypt,” Gregory Aftandilian discusses how antipathy toward the United States grew during the Morsi presidency, and how America can chart a better course by using aid packages to encourage democratic reform. Richard Weitz’s “Transition in Afghanistan” suggests that NATO’s withdrawal may be too soon to avoid a renewal of the Afghan civil war. Dennis Hickey’s “Imbalance in the Taiwan Strait” examines four alternatives for