Presidents and their generals
Subtitle: an American history of command in war
By: Matthew Moten
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780674058149
Subjects: Politics and government; Generals; Civil-military relations; Presidents; Military policy; Military History; Command of troops; History
Description: Moten traces a sweeping history of the evolving roles of civilian and military leaders in conducting war. In doing so he demonstrates how war strategy and national security policy shifted as political and military institutions developed, and how they were shaped by leader's personalities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-426) and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Setting precedents; title: George Washington and the Continental Congress; title: Adams, Washington, and Hamilton; title: Mr. Madison's war; title: Polk against his generals; title: Lincoln's letter to Hooker; title: The politics of collaboration; title: Lincoln and Grant; title: The pershing paradox; title: Roosevelt, Marshall, and Hopkins; title: The perils of partisanship; title: Exit MacArthur; title: Taylor's theory; title: Powell's doctrine; title: Rumsfeld's assumptions.