No Substitute for Victory
Successful American Military Strategies from the Revolutionary War up to the Present Day
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Is there a recipe for military success? In No Substitute for Victory, author David Rigby grapples with this issue and determines that, in the case of the United States, there are a number of different strategies that have brought victory in battle to American forces over the years.
While the writing of military strategy is a crowded field, Rigby’s approach is unique in that he draws examples from conflicts throughout American history, from the Revolution up through the modern day. Rigby’s ability to find similarities in and to draw conclusions from the successes attained by American forces in battles as seemingly dissimilar as Gettysburg and Midway makes No Substitute for Victory essential reading for anyone interested in the riveting history of our nation’s military.
November 11, 2012
Publish Date
240 Pages
Length
Carrel Books
Publisher
“David Rigby’s pithily written, hard-hitting book neatly encapsulates why the United States has been so successful at warfare over the past two hundred fifty years…
It sets out the five key lessons that need to be learned to reestablish the phenomenon that the world needs more than anything else right now: American greatness.”
— Andrew Roberts
Author of the New York Times bestselling The Storm of War
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