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

352 e lusive v ictories complained that presidents have amassed enormous military power and exploited national security crises t ...

c onclusion 353 On occasion, circumstances may briefl y grant a president greater lat- itude. When the nature of a confl ict cha ...

354 e lusive v ictories indefinitely. Other powers will eventually emerge—China, for example—to alter the international system i ...

c onclusion 355 populace the ultimate prize. Unlike the Vietnam aftermath, when the military turned its back on low-intensity co ...

356 e lusive v ictories disproportionate allocation of resources toward the military encourages presidents to opt for military s ...

c onclusion 357 drawn from the historical cases we’ve considered: even deep engagement at the top in the lead-up to war and in i ...

358 e lusive v ictories At the same time, citizens’ capacity to check presidential belligerency is very limited. I have argued t ...

c onclusion 359 do not go well and the fi ghting continues, popular approval purchased on the cheap proves a weak link in the ar ...

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361 Afterword Th e Story behind Th is Book Th is book owes its origins to the decision by George W. Bush to invade Iraq and oust ...

362 a fterword the presidency in wartime. Th is refl ected a pre-9/11 sensibility that peace was the norm (even though the frequ ...

a fterword 363 Bush demonstrated what my research identifi ed as a fundamental characteristic of wartime presidential power: pre ...

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365 Acknowledgments As an author, I have the pleasure of saving the best for last—thanking the many people who helped make this ...

366 a cknowledgments Faculty Lecture, titled “Th e Presidency at War, 1787–2006: Unchecked Power and Political Risk,” to the fac ...

a cknowledgments 367 Over the past several years I have presented a number of lectures that helped me refi ne ideas for this boo ...

368 a cknowledgments with Tim Bent of Oxford University Press. Recognizing that as a recov- ering scholarly writer I still occas ...

369 Introduction Albert A. Nofi , Th e Spanish American War, 1898 (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1997). N o fi , Spanish Americ ...

370 notes to pages 5‒13 Linn, Th e Philippine War ; John M. Gates, “Philippine Guerillas, Ameri- can Anti-Imperialists, and the ...

notes to pages 13‒16 371 be essential. As noted earlier, however, Madison recognized the value of bringing multiple voices into ...