America Goes to War: A Decision-Making Study
FAIN: FT-13174-76
Stephen E. Pelz
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA 01003-9242)
To write a comparative history of America's major war decisions from 1914 to 1965, identify the ways in which processes of decision shape policy outcomes. A pattern of five defined stages in war decisions have evolved, to he supported by using analytical models.