A book analysis of military and civilian influence on decisions regarding the use of force in U.S. foreign affairs. The work examines twenty intervention decisions and ten escalation decisions during crises, including cases in Korea, Berlin, Cuba, and Vietnam. An updated edition includes a preface and epilogue discussing recent cases and declassified information.
Use Cases
- Analyzing patterns of military versus civilian advice in crisis decision-making based on the described case studies.
- Training NLP models on historical political science text based on the book's detailed narrative analysis.
- Studying the evolution of U.S. intervention policy over time based on the updated preface and epilogue.
Strengths
- Analysis is based on 30 specific crisis decisions (20 interventions, 10 escalations).
- Includes an updated edition with analysis of declassified information and recent cases.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Richard K. Betts
- Collection Method
- Scholarly analysis and historical research.
- Time Range
- Post-World War II period, focusing on Cold War crises.
- Freshness
- Last updated date is unknown.
- Geography
- Primarily United States foreign policy, with case studies in Korea, Berlin, Cuba, and Vietnam.