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x, 206 pages ; 25 cm |
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Strategy and history, 1473-6403 ; 25 |
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Cass series--strategy and history. 1473-6403 ; 25
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 3.The slow drift: power without strategic clarity -- History, again: the return of great power military competition -- A loo-narrow focus: the global war on terrorism in context -- Risky inertia: the fixation on counterterrorism -- Conclusion: crafting a grand strategy for a multipolar world -- 4.The decider: the importance of presidential greatness -- Term-limited emperors: the presidency and foreign policy -- For good or ill: the presidency and American strategic culture -- Failure within the policy elite: the NSS example -- Warlords: presidents as military leaders -- Warning the warlord: public criticism as counsel -- Conclusion -- 5.Feet of clay: making inadequate strategists and war leaders -- Shutting the school: the decline of strategic education -- A shallow pool: the strategic knowledge of potential presidents -- Conclusion: the wrong questions -- 6.Lost wars, bleak peace: the tragedy of presidential weakness -- |
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Contents note continued: Repeating errors: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond -- Leveraging Mars: the uses and limits of military power -- The flight from reality: threats, diplomacy, and strategic circularity -- No longer alone: America in a world great power competition -- Tyranny's rewards: America's great power competitors -- Conclusion |
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Machine generated contents note: Strategic success considered -- Missed opportunities and uncertain prospects -- The quiet crisis: presidents and strategy in recent decades -- Voters, presidents, and the future of US strategy -- The management of predictable failure -- Conclusion -- 1.Beyond all expectations: the American rise to preeminence -- Surviving: independence and state-building -- Thriving: the early expansion of the republic -- Slavery, territorial consolidation, and external conquest -- A near-death experience: the Civil War -- Holding fire: American reluctance to join the great powers -- Titan: the new world arbiter of European politics -- Conclusion -- 2.Victory disease: Cold War triumph and its aftermath -- The Soviet challenge: the United States as protecting power -- Erratic quality: the Cold War presidents and containment -- Misadventures: Washington's Cold War errors considered -- Plinking rats: an unimpressive hegemony -- Conclusion -- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Executive power -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Executive power -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Executive power -- United States -- History -- 21st century+2518246
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Presidents -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Strategic culture -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations administration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140116
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001742
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| LC no. |
2011035944 |
| ISBN |
9780203126226 (ebook) |
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9780415598323 (hardback) |
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