Title: Makers of naval policy, 1798-1947 /
Authors: Albion, Robert Greenhalgh,; Reed, Rowena.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Naval Institute Press,
Physical description: x, 737 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: V
Contents: Birds-eye view -- High policy -- Unnatural selection -- Professional advice -- Legislation and investigation -- Authorization, appropriation and confirmation -- Committees and chairmen -- Hill tactics -- Interplay in internal policy, 1789-1880 -- Interplay in internal policy, the new navy -- Interplay in internal policy, Wilson -- Coolidge -- Interplay in internal policy, 1929-1940 -- State and navy -- Interplay in external policy to 1898 -- Interplay in external policy, 1898-1940 -- The army, the navy, and aviation -- The White House and the chiefs -- Other new policy-making patterns -- The wartime civilian executives -- Congress in wartime and reorganization -- Appropriations, 1939-1947 -- Internal interplay -- expansion problems -- Internal interplay -- reorganization -- Interplay in external policy, 1939-1941 -- Interplay in external policy, 1942-1947 -- Unification.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): United States--Military policy.; United States. Navy--History.