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Uneasy Balance: Civil-Military Relations in Peacetime America Since 1783 (Uitgawe and Revised)

Uneasy Balance: Civil-Military Relations in Peacetime America Since 1783 (Uitgawe and Revised)

Langston, Thomas S.

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0801874211
ISBN13: 9780801874215
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Nov 1 2003
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.46 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

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.

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