Editing Exit strategy (section)

==In warfare==
In [[military strategy]], an exit strategy is understood to minimise losses of what military [[jargon]] called "blood and treasure" (lives and materiel).

The term was used technically in internal [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] critiques of the [[Vietnam War]] (cf. President [[Richard Nixon]]'s promise of [[Peace With Honor]]), but remained obscure to the general public until the [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu]], [[Somalia]] when the U.S. military involvement in that U.N. [[peacekeeping]] operation cost the lives of U.S. troops without a clear objective. [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] critics of President [[Bill Clinton]] derided him for having no exit strategy, although he had inherited an active military operation from his predecessor, President [[George H. W. Bush]]. The criticism was revived later against the U.S. involvement in the [[Yugoslav wars]], including peacekeeping operations in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]] and [[Kosovo]] and the [[Kosovo war]] against Serbia.

The term has been adopted by critics of U.S. involvement in [[Afghanistan]] and especially [[Iraq]]. President [[George W. Bush]] was said to have no exit strategy to remove troops from Iraq, and critics worried about the number of [[Coalition of the Willing|Coalition]] soldiers and [[Iraq]]i [[civilian]]s who would suffer injury or death as a result. President [[Barack Obama]] did not publicly announce an exit strategy for the troops in Afghanistan.