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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... diplomatic, and political challenges. The second edition adds two chapters on George W. Bush and the Iraq War, in which I follow the same approach as for the earlier presidents and their wars. My fellow historian Warren Kimball ...
... diplomat George Kennan. In the modestly titled American Diplomacy, 1900—1950, Kennan addressed the question: “How has the United States—so secure in the world of 1900—become so insecure today?” With the cold war now a part of history ...
... diplomat and must deal with other countries, cultivating the support of allies and perhaps international organizations, responding to proposals from third parties or adversaries on ending the war, and deciding when to take his own ...
... diplomatic events—many, of course, unforeseen— provide an essential appreciation of the inevitable difficulties of waging war. With that context in mind, each can be assessed in terms of several basic questions. First, did the president ...
... diplomat? (Was he able to win international support for US. objectives? Did his conduct of the war strengthen or weaken the US. position internationally? How effectively did he manage, or provide direction to, opportunities to end the ...
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Decision by Indecision | |
America keeps | |
The Strategy | |
This aggression | |
The Imperatives | |
Time is not | |
History Overpowers | |
Bibliographical Essay | |
Index | |