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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... criticism. A president thus must combine boldness with political sensitivity, being cautious not to lead where the public will not follow. Some of the president's measures for pressuring adversaries may require congressional approval ...
... January 12, Secretary of State Dean Acheson delivered a major speech intended, in part, to respond to critics' charges that the United States lacked a coherent Asian policy. Acheson identified American interests with Asian aspirations for.
... critics, led by Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy, went so far as to claim that communist agents in the State Department had traitorously “sold out” China. Although such criticism regarding China policy lacked any basis in fact, it ...
... criticism of Truman's Asian policy, and its charges of communist influence in his administration made problematic any presidential calls for reduced partisanship. Throughout his often beleaguered presidency, Truman's foreign policy ...
... critics. When the Senate convened a few minutes later, Republicans exploited the crisis to renew their assault on Truman's “appeasement” in Asia, which they charged had “lost” China and had led to the crisis in Korea. Actually, some of ...
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Decision by Indecision | |
America keeps | |
The Strategy | |
This aggression | |
The Imperatives | |
Time is not | |
History Overpowers | |
Bibliographical Essay | |
Index | |