Warmaking and American democracy
Subtitle: the struggle over military strategy, 1700 to the present
By: Michael D. Pearlman.
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Strategy; National security -- United States; United States -- Military policy; United States -- Armed Forces; United States -- History, Military; United States -- Politics and government
Description: Warmaking and American Democracy is the first comprehensive study of American war strategy in its domestic context. It shows how internal divisions - between political parties, presidents and Congress, elected representatives and bureaucrats, soldiers and civilians, and branches of the armed services - make the creation of strategy extraordinarily complex and explains why wartime goals, ways, and means were often disconnected.

Warmaking and American Democracy goes far beyond other accounts of U.S. military history by relating strategies and campaigns to policy goals and means. It invites serious reconsideration of how we wage war as it shows the complex nature of national security decision making in a democracy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.