Crisis Resolution: Presidential Decision Making in the Mayaguez and Korean Confrontations: Presidential Decision Making in the Mayaguez and Korean Con

ISBN-13: 9780367167516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 324 str.

Richard G. Head

Opis

This book examines two crises that occurred during the Ford administration—the Mayaguez incident and the murder of two U.S. Army officers in the Korean demilitarized zone. It presents an authoritative view of how each department functioned internally and externally during the crises.

Spis treści

1. Approaches to the Study of Crisis 2. The Outline of a Conceptual Framework 3. The National Security Decision-making Process 4. Crisis Command, Control, and Communications 5. The Mayaguez Crisis: Piracy on the High Seas 6. The Korean Tree Crisis: Murder on the DMZ 7. Analysis and Conclusions

O autorze

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.