TY  - BOOK
AU  - PAYNE Andrew
TI  - Presidents, politics, and military strategy: electoral constraints during the Iraq War
PY  - 2019////20
KW  - MILITARY STRATEGY
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - IRAQ
KW  - IRAQ WAR
N2  - How do electoral politics affect presidential decisionmaking in war? As both commander in chief and elected officeholder, presidents must inevitably balance competing objectives of the national interest and political survival when assessing alternative military strategies in war. Yet, how and when electoral pressures influence decisionmaking during an ongoing conflict remains unclear
UR  - https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00371
ER  -