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Informationen zum Autor Carnes Lord, currently Professor of Strategic Leadership at the Naval War College and director of the Naval War College Press, is a political scientist with broad interests in international and strategic studies, national security organization and management, and political philosophy. He has taught at the University of Virginia and the Fletcher School and served in a variety of senior positions in the U.S. government. Klappentext This book is a study of proconsulship, a form of delegated political-military leadership historically associated with the governance of large empires. Opening with a conceptual and historical analysis of proconsulship as an aspect of imperial or quasi-imperial rule generally, it surveys its origins and development in the late Roman Republic and its manifestations in the British Empire. The main focus is proconsulship in American history. Beginning with the occupation of Cuba and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, it discusses the role of General Douglas MacArthur in East Asia during and after World War II, the occupation of Germany (focusing on General Lucius Clay), and proconsular leadership during the Vietnam War and the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan at the turn of the twenty-first century. An additional chapter provides an assessment of the evolution of American political-military command and control and decision making after the end of the Cold War. Zusammenfassung Proconsuls were generals who exercised extraordinary powers of command in the wars that led to Rome's rise as an imperial power. Today! there has been much talk of the increasingly prominent role of proconsular-style officials. This is the first systematic analysis of American proconsular leadership from the Spanish-American War to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. On proconsular leadership; 2. Roman origins; 3. Wood in Cuba; 4. The Philippines; 5. MacArthur in the Far East; 6. Clay in Germany; 7. Vietnam; 8. Clark in the Balkans; 9. Bremer in Iraq; 10. Petraeus in the Middle East; 11. American lessons....
