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A 5 page discussion of the decisions for U.S. entry into World War I and the Iraq war. Were these decisions based on misjudgements and misperceptions? Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Leadership is one of the most important factors in determining how a nation interacts with the world. This
lesson is particularly vivid when we consider war. During all major wars various individuals stand out in terms of their leadership abilities and in terms of whether they use
those abilities in a positive or a negative fashion. When we consider World War I and the Iraq War, for example, we see many similarities in terms of leadership
and in terms of the way that leadership is employed. As Stoessinger (2004) observes, misjudgments and misperception on the part of our world leaders affect history in sometimes phenomenal
ways. Such was the case in World War I and such could certainly be the case in our current involvement in Iraq. The purpose of this paper is to
explore those possibilities. Both World War I and the Iraq War involved a diversity of leaders, all of whom were involved in making
the choice that their nation go to war. Given the space constraints of this paper, however, we must narrow our discussion considerably. Two world leaders, in particular, stand out
when we are considering these events from a U.S. perspective. These two are President Woodrow Wilson and President George W. Bush. Both of these men reacted to a
complex world situation but both reacted with different degrees of stimuli and as a result of their own perceptions as to the necessity of our involvement.
In World War I the precipitating event that started the war in Europe was the 1914 assassination of the Archduke of Austria, Franz Ferdinand. Ferdinand was
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