1st Edition

Grand Strategy and the Presidency Foreign Policy, War and the American Role in the World

By C. Dale Walton Copyright 2012
218 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the role and importance of the Presidency in the formulation and conduct of US grand strategy. The text discusses US strategic history, with particular emphasis on the period from the end of the Cold War to the present day. While the United States periodically has enjoyed exceptional presidential leadership in the past, this book argues that few future presidents will meet... Read more

Introduction  1. Beyond All Expectations: The American Rise to Preeminence  2. Victory Disease: Cold War Triumph and its Aftermath  3. The Slow Drift: Power without Strategic Clarity  4. The Decider: The Importance of Presidential Greatness  5. Feet of Clay: Making Inadequate Strategists and War Leaders  6. Lost Wars, Bleak Place: The Tragedy of Presidential Weakness  Conclusion

Biography

C. Dale Walton is a Lecturer in International Politics and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of Geopolitics and the Great Powers in the Twenty-First Century: Multipolarity and the Revolution in Strategic Perspective (Routledge, 2007) and The Myth of Inevitable US Defeat in Vietnam (Frank Cass/Routledge, 2002).