Strategy & Weapons of War, Military Policy, United States History - General & Miscellaneous, United States Armed Forces, U.S. Politics - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
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.Editorials
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Offers a study of American war strategy in its domestic context, showing how internal divisions between political parties, presidents and Congress, and branches of the armed forces make the creation of strategy enormously complex, and explaining why wartime goals, ways, and means have often been disconnected. Draws on sources in political, military, and diplomatic history, as well as interviews with leading figures in the defense establishment. Examples of wartime success and failure explain the perpetual dysfunctions when a pluralist democracy makes high-level strategy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)Book Details
Published
April 1, 1999
Publisher
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1999.
Pages
393
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780700609383