Warriors and politicians
Subtitle: US. civil-military relations under stress
By: Charles A. Stevenson.
Series: Cass military studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Civil-military relations -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the peculiar nature of civil-military relations in the United States; title: Revolutionary war by committee; title: Lincoln, Congress, and the generals; title: Managing the Vietnam War; title: John Adams and the politics of rearmament; title: Franklin Roosevelt and the politics of rearmament; title: Harry Truman and the politics of rearmament; title: Theodore Roosevelt and military modernization; title: The McNamara revolution; title: The Goldwater-Nichols revolution from above; title: The Bush-Rumsfeld war and transformation; title: Conclusions : U.S. civil-military relations under stress.