
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...

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...