Crisis Resolution: Presidential Decision Making In The Mayaguez And Korean Confrontations: Presidential Decision Making In The Mayaguez And Korean Confrontations - Hardcover

Head, Richard G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367017644 ISBN 13: 9780367017644

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

In the nuclear era, the use of even low levels of force risks catastrophe for all mankind. Yet military force remains an important element of political strategy, and control and coordination of its use with other instruments of national power is of vital importance. The authors of this book, examining two crises that occurred during the Ford admini

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About the Author

Richard G. Head is a colonel in the U.S. Air Force and a military fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. At the time of this research he was a student at the National War College and an associate research fellow with the Research Directorate of the National Defense University. Frisco W. Short, a retired colonel, U.S. Army, was formerly a senior research fellow at the National Defense University. He spent more than two years on the joint staff developing procedures associated with the management of international crisis. Robert C. McFarlane is a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps, currently assigned to the National Defense University, where he is a senior research fellow. He spent more than three years on the staff of the National Security Council and a year as a White House Fellow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367017644
• ISBN 13: 9780367017644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350