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Waging War to Transform the World
In: Elusive Victories, S. 83-132
Fixing Section 409A: Legislative and Administrative Options
In: Villanova Law Review, Forthcoming
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Mission Accomplished
In: Polity, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 423-433
ISSN: 1744-1684
Staying the course: presidential leadership, military stalemate, and strategic inertia
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 127-139
ISSN: 1537-5927
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Staying the Course: Presidential Leadership, Military Stalemate, and Strategic Inertia
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 8, Heft 1, S. 127-139
ISSN: 1541-0986
Military stalemate in Iraq and Vietnam presents a puzzle: why do presidents persist in a strategic course that has failed to secure the goals they defined when they chose to embark upon war? In the face of a quagmire, presidents might choose among three broad strategic options—disengagement, escalation, or continuity. I argue that the first alternative, to withdraw, is made impossible by the inflated rhetoric presidents invoke to sell a skeptical public on the necessity for a limited war and by their own conviction (reinforced by core supporters) that the price of defeat is too great. At the opposite pole lies the possibility of full-scale mobilization. But because presidents during the Vietnam and Iraq wars believed they could also pursue expensive domestic agendas, they did not reserve the resources needed for large-scale escalation. In the both cases, too, civilian leaders were deeply skeptical about their military counterparts and discounted their caution that a greater military commitment would be needed. Finally, as wars drag on, public disenchantment prevents presidents from mustering the political support escalation would require. Their early decisions thus leave them with no alternative to their current strategic commitment.
Mission Accomplished
In: Polity: the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 423-434
ISSN: 0032-3497
Partisan Regimes in American Politics
In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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Living with Path Dependence
In: Polity, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 551-556
ISSN: 1744-1684