Drawdown : : The American Way of Postwar / / ed. by Jason W. Warren.
Analyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that very fre...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Warfare and Culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The American Way of Postwar: The Liberty Dilemma
- Part I Building the American Military Ideal
- 1 The Art of War: Early Anglo-American Translation, 1607–1643
- 2 Liberty Paradox: The Failure of the Military System in Mid-Seventeenth- Century New England
- 3 Surprisingly Professional: Trajectories in Army Officer Corps Drawdowns, 1783–1848
- Part II Managing Industrial-Era Warfare
- 4 Challenged Competency: U.S. Cavalry before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War
- 5 The Elusive Lesson: U.S. Army Unpreparedness from 1898 to 1938
- 6 When the Smoke Clears: The Interwar Years as an Unlikely Success Story
- Part III Conceptualizing Cold War Framework
- 7 Searching for the Greatest Generation’s Army in 1950
- 8 The Post–Korean War Drawdown under the Eisenhower Administration
- 9 Once Again with the High and the Mighty “New Look” Austerity, “Flexible Response” Buildup, and the U.S. Army in Vietnam, 1954–1970
- Part IV Searching for a New Paradigm
- 10 Post-Vietnam Drawdown: The Myth of the Abrams Doctrine
- 11 The “Good” Drawdown: The Post-Vietnam Alignment of Resources
- 12 Preaching after the Devil’s Death: U.S. Post–Cold War Drawdown
- Epilogue
- About the Contributors
- Index