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Uneasy balance :

(Number (ISBN

0801881455

(Number (ISBN

0801898706

(Number (ISBN

9780801881459

(Number (ISBN

9780801898709

Erroneous ISBN

0801874211

Erroneous ISBN

9780801874215

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Uneasy balance :

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[Book]

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civil-military relations in peacetime America since 1783 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Thomas S. Langston.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore :

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Johns Hopkins University Press,

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©2003.

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1 online resource (viii, 198 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The civil-military bargain -- Postwar alignment and the perils of peace -- Successful realignments -- Poor realignments -- Two near disasters -- Military reform and service in the 1990s -- Barriers to balance -- Applying the lessons of the past.

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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.

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Uneasy balance.

Civil-military relations-- United States-- History.

Civil-military relations.

United States.

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Langston, Thomas S.

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20200822131050.0

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