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Warriors and politicians : US civil-military relations under stress / Charles A. Stevenson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cass military studiesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 020396859X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 322/.50973 22
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Contents:
Introduction : the peculiar nature of US civil-military relations -- Revolutionary war by committee -- Lincoln, Congress, and the generals -- Managing the Vietnam War -- John Adams and the politics of rearmament, 1798 -- Franklin Roosevelt and the politics of rearmament -- Harry Truman and the politics of rearmament -- Theodore Roosevelt and military modernization -- The McNamara revolution -- The Goldwater-Nichols revolution from above -- The Bush-Rumsfeld wars and transformation -- Conclusions : US civil-military relations under stress.
Introduction : the peculiar nature of civil-military relations in the United States -- Revolutionary war by committee -- Lincoln, Congress, and the generals -- Managing the Vietnam War -- John Adams and the politics of rearmament -- Franklin Roosevelt and the politics of rearmament -- Harry Truman and the politics of rearmament -- Theodore Roosevelt and military modernization -- The McNamara revolution -- The Goldwater-Nichols revolution from above -- The Bush-Rumsfeld war and transformation -- Conclusions : U.S. civil-military relations under stress.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-247) and index.

Introduction : the peculiar nature of US civil-military relations -- Revolutionary war by committee -- Lincoln, Congress, and the generals -- Managing the Vietnam War -- John Adams and the politics of rearmament, 1798 -- Franklin Roosevelt and the politics of rearmament -- Harry Truman and the politics of rearmament -- Theodore Roosevelt and military modernization -- The McNamara revolution -- The Goldwater-Nichols revolution from above -- The Bush-Rumsfeld wars and transformation -- Conclusions : US civil-military relations under stress.

Introduction : the peculiar nature of civil-military relations in the United States -- Revolutionary war by committee -- Lincoln, Congress, and the generals -- Managing the Vietnam War -- John Adams and the politics of rearmament -- Franklin Roosevelt and the politics of rearmament -- Harry Truman and the politics of rearmament -- Theodore Roosevelt and military modernization -- The McNamara revolution -- The Goldwater-Nichols revolution from above -- The Bush-Rumsfeld war and transformation -- Conclusions : U.S. civil-military relations under stress.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. This edition published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2006.

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