Failure to understand potential vulnerabilities in the Iraqi Army's will to fight in 2011 contributed to its defeat at the hands of the Islamic State in 2014, after which the U.S.The United States failed to break the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's (DRV's) will to fight, lost its own political will to fight, and withdrew from Vietnam having lost nearly 60,000 Americans. The Central Intelligence Agency's analyses of Vietnamese will to fight - on both sides - from 1954 to 1974 were often accurate but essentially ignored by policymakers.Failed assessment of Arab will to fight leading up to the 1973 Yom Kippur War resulted in strategic surprise, nearly leading to Israel's defeat and pushing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of war.
The RAND reports on both the military and national will to fight offer historical cases that demonstrate the impact of will-to-fight misjudgment. Whatever the cause - from the lack of credible assessment methods or even a widely agreed-on definition of will to fight - the military, political, economic, and social costs of a dissonance between accepted will-to-fight theory and practice have been extraordinary. Will to Fight in History Impact of Will-to-Fight Assessment and Analysis Failures The consequences of this erratic ebb and flow stand testament to the pressing need to improve and normalize the study of will to fight in American military practice and to make its lessons useful. It has no stable, central place in doctrine or practice, and it is often defined in vague and impractical terms. Army and Marine Corps - the ground combat forces of the American military - have alternatively embraced and ignored the concept of will to fight for over a century. 2016 (War on Terror): ADP 3-0 (high point)Įffectively no inclusion of will to fight.1939 (WWII): Field Service Regulations (highest point).Timeline for When Will to Fight Was Important, in Historical Context with Accompanying Military Doctorine Will to fight is most or very important
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