President Roosevelt's Recall of General Stilwell from China: A Military Casualty of Bureaucratic Politics.

摘要

President Franklin Roosevelt's recall of General Joseph Stilwell from the China-Burma-India Theater in 1944 occurred as a result of governmental bureaucratic politics. The President's recall decision was the culmination of a three-year dispute between the War Department and the President over the optimal military objectives to support Roosevelt's political objectives for China during World War II. This research paper will analyze the President's decision within the framework of Graham T. Allison's Governmental Politics Paradigm. The model views government decisions as products of 'compromise, conflict and confusion of officials with diverse interests and unequal power. Using Allison's model, the paper will examine the President's decision by presenting the players' positions, preferences, compromises and actions which resulted in Stilwell's ultimate recall.