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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... political challenges. The second edition adds two chapters on George W. Bush and the Iraq War, in which I follow the ... politics, the actions of other nations, and his obligations under the Constitution. As these four cases illustrate ...
... political system, the president is at the center of the movement toward war. The Constitution Confers upon the president the power to define and implement foreign policy. In his classic 1908 study of the American constitution, Woodrow ...
... 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, as was the case when President Wilson wanted to increase ...
... political, economic, and military strength... It is necessary to have the military power to deter, if possible, Soviet expansion and to defeat, if necessary, Soviet or Soviet-directed actions of a limited or total character.” In sum ...
... political change throughout the Middle East. Each of these decisions for war and the ensuing conflicts had controversial aspects at the time, aspects that have been the subject of continuing debate involving participants, journalists ...
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Decision by Indecision | |
America keeps | |
The Strategy | |
This aggression | |
The Imperatives | |
Time is not | |
History Overpowers | |
Bibliographical Essay | |
Index | |