This book describes the constitutional balance of war powers and instances of presidential war-making from 1980 to 1988. It shows that all four instances of war-making by President Ronald Reagan were undertaken within the scope of the President's broad, but not unlimited, war...
Ronald Reagan's term in office was punctuated by four significant employments of military force: the deployment of Marines to Lebanon; the intervention in Grenada; the air strikes against Libya; and the deployment of naval forces to the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of each...