{"title":"James A. Warren","description":"James A. Warren is a historian and foreign policy analyst. A regular contributor to The Daily Beast, he is the author of God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England; American Spartans: The US Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq; and The Lions of Iwo Jima: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Bloodiest Battle in Marine Corps History (with Major General Fred Haynes, USMC-RET), among other books. For many years, Warren was an acquisitions editor at Columbia University Press, and more recently a visiting scholar in American Studies at Brown University. He lives in Saunderstown, Rhode Island.","products":[{"product_id":"god-war-and-providence-the-epic-struggle-of-roger-williams-and-the-narragansett-indians-against-the-puritans-of-new-england-paperback","title":"God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: \"a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused to back down and accept English authority.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Yet his orthodox brethren were convinced tolerance fostered anarchy and courted God's wrath. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the seventeenth century wore on, a steadily deepening antagonism developed between an expansionist, aggressive Puritan culture and an increasingly vulnerable, politically divided Indian population. Indian tribes that had been at the center of the New England communities found themselves shunted off to the margins of the region. By the 1660s, all the major Indian peoples in southern New England had come to accept English authority, either tacitly or explicitly. All, except one: the Narragansetts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGod, War, and Providence\u003c\/i\u003e \"James A. Warren transforms what could have been merely a Pilgrim version of cowboys and Indians into a sharp study of cultural contrast...a well-researched cameo of early America\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e). He explores the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams's Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment. Deeply researched, \"Warren's well-written monograph contains a great deal of insight into the tactics of war on the frontier\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) and serves as a telling precedent for white-Native American encounters along the North American frontier for the next 250 years.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367060996319,"sku":"9781501180422","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VQ155Jwl729781501180422.webp?v=1789102287"},{"product_id":"outmaneuvered-americas-tragic-encounter-with-warfare-from-vietnam-to-afghanistan-hardcover","title":"Outmaneuvered: America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a celebrated military historian, a \"searing...persuasive\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) exploration of why the mighty United States military has repeatedly failed in irregular wars and military campaigns from Vietnam to Afghanistan.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the early 1960s, the United States has fought in four major wars and a cluster of complicated and bloody irregular warfare campaigns. The majority have ended in failure, or something close to it. Why has the US been so ineffective, despite the American armed forces being universally recognized as the best in the world? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost scholars and analysts believe that the primary cause of our abysmal war record since Vietnam has been the US military's overwhelmingly conventional approach to conflict, which favors highly mobile precision firepower and sophisticated systems of command and control. Here, James Warren argues that a much more formidable obstacle to success has been pervasive strategic ineptitude at the highest levels of decision-making, including the presidency, the National Security Council, and the foreign policy community in DC. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTime and time again, American presidents have committed military forces to operations in foreign countries whose politics and cultures they did not fully understand. Presidents of both political parties, including Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama have overestimated the capacity of US forces to alter the social and political landscape of foreign nations, and underestimated the ability of insurgents and terrorists to develop effective protracted war strategies that eventually, inevitably sap Washington's will to carry on the fight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWarren asserts that in the War on Terror that followed September 11, 2001, senior military officers have been complicit in extending bankrupt strategies by refusing to speak truthfully about them to their civilian bosses. So have the American people, who lost interest in the \"forever wars\" in Afghanistan and Iraq and failed to press their presidents and Congress to bring an end to two futile conflicts. Warren advocates for a less hubristic foreign policy and a broader conception of warfare as a political and military enterprise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An admirable must-read for military...foreign policy history buffs\" (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e), and anyone interested in geopolitical strategy, this book offers unparalleled insights into America's prior--and potentially future--military conflicts.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368487190751,"sku":"9781668004555","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mDPq8HMJu9781668004555.webp?v=1789128518"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/james-a-warren.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}