Grand strategy and the presidency : foreign policy, war and the American role in the world / C. Dale Walton.
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Series: | Cass series--strategy and history ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 3.The slow drift: power without strategic clarity
- History, again: the return of great power military competition
- A too-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
- 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.