 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1986 - 644 pages
...before the United States commits combat forces abroad, there must be some reasonable assurance that we will have the support of the American people and their elected representatives in Congress. Just as we require public and congressional support for employing military force in war, we also require... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1986 - 650 pages
...before the United States commits combat forces abroad, there must be some reasonable assurance that we will have the support of the American people and their elected representatives in Congress. Just as we require public and congressional support for employing military force in war, we also require... | |
 | Holly Sklar - 1988 - 484 pages
...reassessed and adjusted if necessary"; before the United States "commits combat forces abroad, there must be some reasonable assurance we will have the support...people and their elected representatives in Congress"; the commitment of US forces should be a last resort."7 Weinberger's concern about winning was not new.... | |
 | Alvin Z. Rubinstein - 1990 - 348 pages
...continually reassessed and adjusted as necessary"; (5) before deploying forces abroad, "there must be some reasonable assurance we will have the support...people and their elected representatives in Congress"; and (6) the commitment of combat torces should present fear of involvement in another Vietnam and the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget - 1988 - 354 pages
...objectives. And before the United States commits forces abroad, there has to be a reasonable assurance they will have the support of the American people and their elected representatives, and finally, the commitment that US forces should be a last resort and only after other resources have... | |
 | Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. - 1986 - 350 pages
...Salvador, confront the "main" adversary in Nicaragua or (if need be, one would assume) Cuba. Furthermore, the "support of the American people and their elected representatives in Congress" is mandated. This, it would seem, is intended to preclude the lack of popular and congressional support... | |
 | Stephen Sloan - 1992 - 83 pages
...defined military and political objectives. Before the US commits combat forces abroad, there must be a reasonable assurance we will have the support of the American people and their representatives in Congress.4 Yet, as previously noted, in the war on terrorism there are few if any... | |
 | Martin Binkin - 2010 - 196 pages
...not drift into another Vietnam. "Before the US commits combat forces abroad," he said, "there must be some reasonable assurance we will have the support...people and their elected representatives in Congress. We cannot fight a battle with the Congress at home while asking our troops to win a war overseas or,... | |
 | Cynthia Arnson - 1993 - 390 pages
...Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stated: "Before the US commits combat forces abroad, there must be some reasonable assurance we will have the support...people and their elected representatives in Congress. We cannot fight a battle with the Congress at home while asking our troops to win a war overseas.""... | |
 | H. W. Brands - 1993 - 260 pages
...force of arms?' " Fifth, before the president committed American troops to combat, there had to exist "some reasonable assurance we will have the support...people and their elected representatives in Congress." The memory of the last war had burned itself deep into the Pentagon's institutional memory. "We cannot... | |
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yes," then we must win. If the answers are "no," then we should not be in combat. (5) Fifth, before the US commits combat forces abroad, there must be some reasonable assurance we will have the support of the American people and their elected representatives... 
