Uneasy Balance

Uneasy Balance
Author :
Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 209
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780801881459
ISBN-13 : 0801881455
Rating : 4/5 (455 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Uneasy Balance by : Thomas S. Langston

Download or read book Uneasy Balance written by Thomas S. Langston and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to focus on civil-military tensions after American wars, Thomas Langston challenges conventional theory by arguing that neither civilian nor military elites deserve victory in this perennial struggle. What is needed instead, he concludes, is balance. In America's worst postwar episodes, those that followed the Civil War and the Vietnam War, balance was conspicuously absent. In the late 1860s and into the 1870s, the military became the tool of a divisive partisan program. As a result, when Reconstruction ended, so did popular support of the military. After the Vietnam War, military leaders were too successful in defending their institution against civilian commanders, leading some observers to declare a crisis in civil-military relations even before Bill Clinton became commander-in-chief. Is American military policy balanced today? No, but it may well be headed in that direction. At the end of the 1990s there was still no clear direction in military policy. The officer corps stubbornly clung to a Cold War force structure. A civilian-minded commander-in-chief, meanwhile, stretched a shrinking force across the globe. With the shocking events of September 11, 2001, clarifying the seriousness of the post-Cold War military policy, we may at last be moving toward a true realignment of civilian and military imperatives.


Uneasy Balance Related Books

Uneasy Balance
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Thomas S. Langston
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In the first book to focus on civil-military tensions after American wars, Thomas Langston challenges conventional theory by arguing that neither civilian nor m
Uneasy Manhood
Language: en
Pages: 251
Authors: Robert Hicks
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-04-01 - Publisher: Fleming H Revell Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Chaplain Robert Hicks asks why men feel so uneasy as friends, fathers, and husbands--and finds the answer in our changing and confusing culture. He points the w
Uneasy Balance
Language: en
Pages: 93
Authors: Christopher Joseph Platt
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Explores and celebrates the process of designing and making of the new building by Stephen Holl architects opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece, The
Federalism in Canada
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Thomas O. Hueglin
Categories: Canada
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Federalism in Canada tells the turbulent story of shared sovereignty and divided governance from Confederation to the present time. It does so with three main
Wealth and Welfare
Language: en
Pages: 673
Authors: Martin Daunton
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of