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Toward the national security state :

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0275984087

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9780275984083

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b733203

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Toward the national security state :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

civil-military relations during World War II /

First Statement of Responsibility

Brian Waddell.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Westport, CT :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Praeger Security International,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 200 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

In war and in peace,

ISSN of Series

1556-8504

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Pre-World War II civil-military relations -- Civil-military battles over domestic mobilization -- Civil-military command relations -- Citizens and soldiers -- The postwar synthesis: building the national security state.

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"American involvement in World War II transformed U.S. civil-military relations by propelling the U.S. military into a prominent position within the national government. This established new linkages and a new unity between key civilian and military personnel that were institutionalized in the postwar national security state. Waddell explores these developments and examines the impact of the new relationships that were forged in the face of the threat of fascism and rose to dominate the military-industrial complex during the Cold War." "War is considered the most significant influence on building and transforming government institutions. Yet, scholars interested in American political development tend to ignore WWII, while focusing on the Great Depression and the New Deal of the 1930s. In turn, scholars who do focus on the Second World War tend to focus on the diplomacy, strategies, battles, and personalities that dominated the war itself. Rarely is the war considered from the perspective of how it changed the fundamental nature of American government, despite the fact the national security state institutionalized after the war did just that." "The book approaches this dramatic shift in American national government by examining the intense wartime changes in civil-military relations that allowed the U.S. to participate fully as a partner in a two-front world war and greatly influenced the postwar transformation of American government. Dramatic wartime transformations are traced in three areas of civil military relations: military corporate relations surrounding mobilizing the "arsenal of democracy," top level command relations between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his military commanders; and the civil-military tensions and relations involved in mobilizing a mass citizen army. A final chapter analyzes the postwar synthesis of these changes as the U. S. institutionalized a striking new civil-military unity through the postwar national security state."--BOOK JACKET.

Title

Toward the national security state.

Title

Toward the national security state.

Civil supremacy over the military-- United States.

Civil-military relations-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

World War, 1939-1945-- United States.

15.85 history of America.

Bürgerliche Gesellschaft

Civil supremacy over the military.

Civil-military relations.

Krijgsmacht.

Militär

Politics and government

Politiek.

Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Weltkrieg

United States, Politics and government, 1933-1945.

United States.

USA

USA.

Verenigde Staten.

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Waddell, Brian.

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20201203175622.0

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