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

12 e lusive v ictories domestic insurrections, and to impose standards upon the state militia. Th e article prohibits the use of ...

i ntroduction 13 Th e opposing view—that Congress has the authority to make most decisions to employ military force—has been ass ...

14 e lusive v ictories Greater Military Means, Fewer Restraints, and the Wrong Kinds of Wars Th e Constitution has remained a co ...

i ntroduction 15 Th e presidents who would face two world wars still depended on legislative action to bring the armed forces to ...

16 e lusive v ictories World War had generated powerful political sponsors eager for ongoing defense contracts to sustain busine ...

i ntroduction 17 sole state upholding the established international order. Any rebellion, coup, or war might shift the prevailin ...

18 e lusive v ictories Weakened Constraints on Presidential War-Making. Th e demise of the classical legal step for going to war ...

i ntroduction 19 during World War II. Supportive though the Court was in such cases, it either ratifi ed actions presidents had ...

20 e lusive v ictories as George H.W. Bush learned after his overwhelming triumph in the 1991 Gulf War could not be translated i ...

i ntroduction 21 which reached its apogee in the world wars of the twentieth century. After the Second World War, conventional c ...

22 e lusive v ictories own people. Commonly called asymmetric warfare, it may be more apt to refer to this form of confl ict as ...

i ntroduction 23 most favorable international circumstances, and generate public support for military action. Persuading the pub ...

24 e lusive v ictories war goals he has established, and remain vigilant that how the military fi ghts the war advances goals ra ...

i ntroduction 25 of Prohibition and agricultural price supports (prompted by the collapse of farm prices when wartime demand sub ...

26 e lusive v ictories available, moreover, prove to be of limited value for meeting certain tasks. Again, peace-building comes ...

i ntroduction 27 latitude in determining whether to go to war, presidents have been extremely eff ective in exploiting circumsta ...

28 e lusive v ictories Other scholars have sought to explain the disappointing record of pres- idents in achieving their broader ...

i ntroduction 29 Of the six core leadership challenges war poses, presidents have struggled most with the task of maintaining po ...

30 e lusive v ictories and Barack Obama (Afghanistan). This is an incomplete list of wartime presidents, of course. But through ...

31  abraham lincoln was an extraordinary wartime leader. He led the country through its most trying ordeal, a civil war that sp ...