Political Science 3300     
The American Presidency       Wednesday,  April 30, 2008

FINAL EXAM: Monday May 5, 10  - 12

Presidents and National Security Policy

3. Growing Presidential Power in National Security

    The growth of the American military role led to growing presidential responsibility

    President George W. Bush and the Prerogative Theory of the National Security presidency

    Presidents make politics: Domestic Politics and National Security

   4. Iraq: A Case Study

    Lessons of Vietnam

    The Defense Bureaucracy

    The Middle East caldron

    National security and the 2000 election

    Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld takes on the military bureaucracy

    9/11 changes everything

    The Invasion of Iraq, 3/19/06

   The limits of post-war planning

          The post-war Iraqi government

            Insurgency

            Bombing the U.N. Mission in Baghdad, 8/22/03

            Samarra, 2/22/06

            The bombings of 11/24/06

           The Surge, 2007

Course Conclusion: The Lincoln Test