Can Western Militaries Still Win Wars? Martin van Creveld's Pussycats And the Decline of the West

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Can Western militaries still defeat their non-Western opponents? While once unbeatable, Western arms have had a disappointing track record since the end of World War 2, with embarressments from Indochina and Algeria to Iraq and Afghanistan. What changed? That's the question we look at in this video with the assistance of Martin van Creveld's classic study of Western military decline, Pussycats. In his book Pussycats, van Creveld examines a series of factors that show (or have caused) Western armies to lose their historic strength. While I have no desire to see our military rushing around the world in more foreign adventures like we had in the Bush-Blair years, a decline in Western military effectiveness should concern all patriots.

Books referred to in this video:
Pussycats, Martin van Creveld
Carnage and Culture, Victor Davis Hanson
Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge

Martin van Creveld gives a very interesting talk here, claims technology is overrated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-BZfazbyRs

While commenting about lower rates of PTSD in Britain he didn't give a figure so I took my figure in the video (9% for Iraq and Afghanistan) from this source:
https://theconversation.com/increase-in-ptsd-among-uk-veterans-who-served-in-afghanistan-and-iraq-new-research-104284

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