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The road to war : presidential commitments honored and betrayed /

Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. From Korea to Vietnam, Panama to Grenada, Lebanon to Bosnia, Afgha...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalb, Marvin L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: ©2013
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Truman's war in Korea -- The hatching of an American "commitment" -- Eisenhower: "My God, we must not lose Asia!" -- Kennedy: the coup that failed -- Johnson: "Let us continue" -- Nixon: "There is no way to win this war" -- One way or the other: getting out, finally -- "Honorable exit" or "decent interval" -- The Israel model: unprecedented and unpredictable -- Where are they now? 
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