Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman here confronts one of the momentous issues of American history and the American present - the contending prerogatives of the president and Congress in making war.
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From Publishers Weekly
This selective history of the struggle between the President and Congress over control of military power deals mainly with events of the last 20 years: the quest for strategic arms agreements, and military initiatives in Grenada, Libya, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Iran, Panama and the Persian Gulf. Former Navy Secretary Lehman reviews the 1972 War Powers Act, the first Senate attempt to define the President's wartime authority under the Constitution. In discussing U.S. efforts to end the arms race, he argues that interaction between the president and Congress was "far more important" in the treaty process than was Washington-Moscow diplomacy. His focus in this instance is on the debate over the Tomahawk cruise missile. Lehman reviews Washington's relationship with Manuel Noriega and the 1989 intervention in Panama, offering this incident as a cautionary tale about the interplay among the executive, legislative and judicial branches in making war and formulating foreign policy. This study of the relationship between military adventures and American politics is closer to a civics textbook than a work for general readers.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Former Navy Secretary Lehman has produced a thought-provoking and artfully crafted analysis of the conflicts between the president and Congress over the conduct of foreign affairs from the time of the Tripoli pirates to Operation Desert Storm. Rich in historical and legal texture, his work examines the constitutional relationship between the two branches and traces conflicts from the 1800s through the invasion of Panama, the marines in Lebanon, the Grenada invasion, and the Gulf War. Lehman ably chronicles the battles of the Titans between presidential demands for secrecy and congressional penchant for in vestigation. Unlike Stephen Graubard's Mr. Bush's War ( LJ 1/92) and Jean Smith's George Bush's War ( LJ 3/1/92), Lehman's book puts Desert Storm into the longer sweep of history. Highly recommended for general, academic, and law libraries.
-Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Frank Kessler, Missouri Western State Coll., St. Joseph
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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