Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and IraqJHU Press, 2009年3月1日 - 344 頁 Following World War II, Americans expected that the United States would wage another major war against a superpower. Instead, the nation has fought limited wars against much weaker states, such as North Korea, North Vietnam, and Iraq. This revised and updated edition of Presidential Decisions for War analyzes the means by which four presidents have taken the nation to war and assesses the effectiveness of each president's leadership during those conflicts. Gary Hess recreates the unfolding crises in Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq to probe the reasons why Presidents Truman, Johnson, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush and their advisors decided in favor of war. He compares the performance of the commanders-in-chief and evaluates how effectively each understood U.S. interests, explored alternatives to war, adhered to constitutional processes, and built congressional, popular, and international support. A new conclusion points out, that unlike the administrations of Truman, Johnson, and the elder Bush, George W. Bush's White House actively sought to change the international order through preemptive war and aggressive democracy building. Fully revised and featuring an examination of how each of the presidents learned from history and juggled the demands on diplomacy, this comparative study of presidential war-making elucidates how effective executive leadership—or its absence—directly affects the outcome of wars. |
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... challenging. I tried to reconstruct, succinctly but with attention to important issues and developments, the ... challenges. The second edition adds two chapters on George W. Bush and the Iraq War, in which I follow the same approach as ...
... challenges presented by prewar tensions? Context is vital, so in examining the decisions for war, an attempt will be made to recreate the sense of crisis—the “historical moment” when issues of war and peace were in the balance—as seen ...
... challenge in Iraq, of course, did not approximate what the United States faced at the beginning of World War II. As expected, the Iraqi armed forces were no match for the Americans, and “mission accomplished” was proclaimed after six ...
... challenges presented by the crises in Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, and Iraq overshadowed other international and domestic problems and accomplishments. Each left office remembered mostly as a wartime president. 1 Harry S. Truman ...
... challenge, the United States “must lead in building a successfully functioning political and economic system in the free world [for] the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.” The United States had to ...
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Decision by Indecision | |
America keeps | |
The Strategy | |
This aggression | |
The Imperatives | |
Time is not | |
History Overpowers | |
Bibliographical Essay | |
Index | |