MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aE840$b.W355 2012
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100 1 $aWalton, C. Dale,$d1971-
245 10 $aGrand strategy and the presidency :$bforeign policy, war and the American role in the world /$cC. Dale Walton.
260 $aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2012.
300 $ax, 206 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 0 $aStrategy and history,$x1473-6403 ;$v25
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMachine 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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989-
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations administration.
650 0 $aStrategic culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century.
650 0 $aExecutive power$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aExecutive power$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century.