Uncertain Allies

""An expert on East Asian military history, Dr. Setzekorn has earned justified acclaim for his work on American support for the Nationalist Chinese Army during World War II and the early Cold War. His work on Stilwell's experience will provide new insights into the current situation in the Indo-Pacific.""—David W. Hogan, Director of Histories, U.S. Army Center of Military History “Uncertain Allies should be required reading for today’s senior military leaders. This highly researched and engaging case study helps us to understand the complicated dynamics of political-military coordination. Its strong argument is highly relevant to current events and this book should appeal not just to military historians, but anyone interested in U.S. national security.”—John C. Petersen,  Dept. of Defense ""Filling an important gap in World War II studies, this will be the definitive book on Stilwell and the CBI theater for the foreseeable future.  With his background as a US Army historian and his facility in Chinese, Setzekorn is uniquely qualified to write this important study.  Using previously overlooked archival materials from Fort Leavenworth as well as copious Chinese and Japanese sources, he finds that Stilwell failed to fully grasp the political contexts in which he operated and this failure was the primary reason for his difficulties.  Moreover, this experience established a pattern that has plagued all subsequent US cooperative military operations from Korea through Iraq.  Thus, the book should be required reading for anyone interested not only in World War II, but also in its continuing implications for coalition building and joint military actions.""—Kenneth M. Swope, Professor of History and Senior Fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi.