The Powell Doctrine and US Foreign Policy

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4724-2565-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: Military Strategy and Operational Art

The Vietnam War is one of the longest and most controversial in US history. This book seeks to explore what lessons the US military took from that conflict as to how and when it was appropriate for the United States to use the enormous military force at its disposal and how these lessons have come to influence and shape US foreign policy in subsequent decades. In particular this book will focus on the evolution of the so called ’Powell Doctrine’ and the intellectual climate that lead to it. The book will do this by examining a series of case studies from the mid-1970s to the present war in Afghanistan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middup, Luke

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Militär- und Verteidigungstechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Force Should Only be Used in the “Vital National Interest”; Chapter 2 The Use of Force Must be Overwhelming; Chapter 3 US Forces Must Have Overwhelming Public and Congressional Support; Chapter 4 The Objective of US Military Forces Should be Clear; Chapter 5 The Need for a Clear “Exit Strategy”; Chapter 6 The War in Iraq; Chapter 7 The War in Afghanistan; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Luke Middup gained his Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham in 2011. He has previously published on the similarities and differences between US war planning in Vietnam and US war planning in the first Persian Gulf. His research interests are US foreign and national security policy post-1945. Dr Middup is currently Associate Lecturer with Portsmouth Business School at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, UK.