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

92 e lusive v ictories At this point, though, Wilson’s diplomacy was subverted by members of his own administration. Both Lansin ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 93 a large army to promote his goal of a lasting peace.  For that matter, he remained ce ...

94 e lusive v ictories critics observed, this was entirely inadequate for an actual war and larger than necessary for peace.  ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 95 Wilson had left himself with no choice but to break diplomatic rela- tions with Germany ...

96 e lusive v ictories his new British and French partners would continue to have very dif- ferent conceptions about the goals f ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 97 the other Central Powers.) Although in theory it might be possible to achieve these obj ...

98 e lusive v ictories At this pivotal juncture, when Wilson needed to make clear why Americans had to join a war they had avoid ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 99 “free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims,” a proc ...

100 e lusive v ictories Very much wedded to the prevailing racial assumptions of his age, he did not believe non-white colonial ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 101 developments: Congress had denied funding to send observers to Europe (the administrat ...

102 e lusive v ictories American troops were sent over quickly and incorporated into British and French units. British Major Gen ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 103 punitive expedition.  Th ere he had avoided antagonizing the Mexican government desp ...

104 e lusive v ictories and have a suffi cient impact in battle to assure that the president could set the agenda at any postwar ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 105 administration (and preempt the critics by sharing ownership of the problems with them ...

106 e lusive v ictories people to buy war bonds, the administration exempted the interest from taxation. People borrowed so they ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 107 offi cers)  had to identify a sector of the front where the U.S. Army would eventual ...

108 e lusive v ictories prevailed (the Allies had no leverage, given their dire need for man- power), the debate would continue ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 109 Enraged by his obtuseness amid disaster, the British again appealed over the general’s ...

110 e lusive v ictories among the units committed to the fi rst attacks. Operations bogged down, too, because officers bungled t ...

w aging w ar to t ransform the w orld 111 the battlefield—that helped spur German resentment of the peace treaty.) Despite the m ...