Elusive Victories_ The American Presidency at War-Oxford University Press (2012)

192 e lusive v ictories could dictate the pace of the transition, a refl ection of his assumption that non-white populations wer ...

f reedom of a ction 193 when American victory became certain: he let MacArthur’s Philippine gambit go too far and, arguably, wai ...

194 e lusive v ictories audiences. All the reinforcements were killed or captured within a few days.  (Contrast this with Roo ...

f reedom of a ction 195 of the Red Army advancing at least to the Rhine and quite possibly to the Channel coast. Postwar geopoli ...

196 e lusive v ictories administration had backed in the First World War. Opposition to the war scarcely existed after Pearl Har ...

f reedom of a ction 197 war and fi xated on the inconveniences caused by the lack of certain goods and by wartime regulations. A ...

198 e lusive v ictories Th e post-TORCH operations in the Mediterranean into mid-1944, moreover, followed a political as well as ...

f reedom of a ction 199 American people and their capacity to endure the terrible price of civil war. He explained his policies ...

200 e lusive v ictories Japanese strike with no way to get into the European war he thought the United States needed to wage and ...

f reedom of a ction 201 thereafter shifted to peripheral regions around the globe, ones just emerging from colonialism. Th e Uni ...

202  the vietnam war claims two dubious distinctions: it was the only American confl ict to end in unequivocal defeat and, in t ...

s taying the c ourse 203 His paranoia about antiwar critics, moreover, backfi red in the political scandal that eventually doome ...

204 e lusive v ictories American terms. On the home front, Nixon failed to see that the gradual withdrawal of American forces tr ...

s taying the c ourse 205 communists were confi dent that as the only legitimate anticolonial independence movement they would ea ...

206 e lusive v ictories sober refl ection on whether specifi c communist challenges endangered American security or that of its ...

s taying the c ourse 207 some U.S. offi cials. A coup on November 1, 1963, toppled the regime and resulted in the murder of both ...

208 e lusive v ictories enter the confl ict dictated that the response be limited. Th e political consequences of his choices al ...

s taying the c ourse 209 cause of national liberation movements that opposed colonial or American-leaning governments. Of course ...

210 e lusive v ictories were suspect, but still it exercised a powerful grip on both the elite and popular imagination. In Febru ...

s taying the c ourse 211 the communist menace. Equally important, Vietnam must not be allowed to increase the risk of nuclear co ...