Warriors and politicians : U.S. civil-military relations under stress /

Main Author: Stevenson, Charles A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2006.
Subjects:
Table of 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.