Abstract
War policy was defined in the last chapter as a policy under which the use of organized military violence plays the central role in achieving political objectives. National will is the stability of war policy. A failure of will is characterized by a discontinuous change in war policy. A discussion about the American national will in war, therefore, is rightly focused on the output of the U.S. domestic policy process in the production of war policy. Instead of limiting the discussion to a discrete decision in time, as do many studies concerning the decision to go to war, I enlist relevant theories of the policy process to examine the course of war policy over time. In this chapter I develop the theoretical structure for my argument and its central component, the war narrative.
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