Making War, Thinking History: Munich, Vietnam, and Presidential Uses of Force from Korea to Kosovo
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In examining the influence of historical analogies on decisions to useor not useforce, military strategist Jeffrey Record assesses every major application of U.S. force from the Korean War to the NATO war on Serbia. Specifically, he looks at the influence of two analogies: the democracies' appeasement of Hitler at Munich and America's defeat in the Vietnam War. His book judges the utility of these two analogies on presidential decision-making and finds considerable misuse of them in situa...






















