Description: Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis : Presidential Decision-Making and Its Effect on Military Employment During the Kennedy Administration, Paperback by United States Army Command and General Staff College (COR), ISBN 1511666951, ISBN-13 9781511666954, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This study investigates the methods by which President John F. Kennedy arrived atdecisions to deploy the military in the conduct of foreign policy. Specifically, the events covered are the Bay of Pigs, which represents the nadir of Kennedy's foreign policy experience, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, regarded as his high watermark as a world leader. Further, this study examines how effectively Kennedy employed the military once he arrived at the decision to deploy them in pursuit of his policies. President Kennedy served during a period of extraordinary preferred instrument of choice in foreign policy matters was the military. This study explores the maturation of Kennedy's decision-making process and how its evolution most affected the military. The study focuses on Kennedy's personalityand the Cold War political realities to arrive at an understanding of the decision making mindset of the era. From this point of reference, the measure of effectiveness of Kennedy's "flexible response" strategy is validated and his employment of the military can be judged a qualified success.
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Book Title: Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis : Presidential Decision-Making and Its Effect on Military Employment During the Kennedy Administration
Number of Pages: 124 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Item Length: 11 in
Author: United States Army Command and College Staff
Item Width: 8.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
