Military Power in a Free Society
Author : Henry Effingham Eccles
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1979
Category : International relations
ISBN :
Author : Henry Effingham Eccles
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1979
Category : International relations
ISBN :
Author : Henry E. Eccles
Publisher :
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 29,27 MB
Release : 1987
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Risa Brooks
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2007-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804768092
Creating Military Power examines how societies, cultures, political structures, and the global environment affect countries' military organizations. Unlike most analyses of countries' military power, which focus on material and basic resources—such as the size of populations, technological and industrial base, and GNP—this volume takes a more expansive view. The study's overarching argument is that states' global environments and the particularities of their cultures, social structures, and political institutions often affect how they organize and prepare for war, and ultimately impact their effectiveness in battle. The creation of military power is only partially dependent on states' basic material and human assets. Wealth, technology, and human capital certainly matter for a country's ability to create military power, but equally important are the ways a state uses those resources, and this often depends on the political and social environment in which military activity takes place.
Author : Christopher A. Preble
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801457912
Numerous polls show that Americans want to reduce our military presence abroad, allowing our allies and other nations to assume greater responsibility both for their own defense and for enforcing security in their respective regions. In The Power Problem, Christopher A. Preble explores the aims, costs, and limitations of the use of this nation's military power; throughout, he makes the case that the majority of Americans are right, and the foreign policy experts who disdain the public's perspective are wrong. Preble is a keen and skeptical observer of recent U.S. foreign policy experiences, which have been marked by the promiscuous use of armed intervention. He documents how the possession of vast military strength runs contrary to the original intent of the Founders, and has, as they feared, shifted the balance of power away from individual citizens and toward the central government, and from the legislative and judicial branches of government to the executive. In Preble's estimate, if policymakers in Washington have at their disposal immense military might, they will constantly be tempted to overreach, and to redefine ever more broadly the "national interest." Preble holds that the core national interest—preserving American security—is easily defined and largely immutable. Possessing vast military power in order to further other objectives is, he asserts, illicit and to be resisted. Preble views military power as purely instrumental: if it advances U.S. security, then it is fulfilling its essential role. If it does not—if it undermines our security, imposes unnecessary costs, and forces all Americans to incur additional risks—then our military power is a problem, one that only we can solve. As it stands today, Washington's eagerness to maintain and use an enormous and expensive military is corrosive to contemporary American democracy.
Author : Allan R. Millett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502122
This three-volume study examines the questions raised by the performance of the military institutions of France, Germany, Russia, the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Italy in the period from 1914 to 1945. Leading military historians deal with the different national approaches to war and military power at the tactical, operational, strategic, and political levels. They form the basis for a fundamental re-examination of how military organizations have performed in the first half of the twentieth century. Volume 3 covers World War II. Volumes 1 and 2 address address World War I and the interwar period, respectively. Now in a new edition, with a new introduction by the editors, these classic volumes will remain invaluable for military historians and social scientists in their examination of national security and military issues. They will also be essential reading for future military leaders at Staff and War Colleges.
Author : Walter Millis
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Political Science
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Author : Cara Acred
Publisher : Issues Series
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2015-09
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : 9781861687210
This title looks at issues which concern members and former members of the armed forces. It covers issues such as service-related mental ill health, dealing with physical injuries, the future of the armed services in the wake of government cuts and redundancies, and much more.
Author : Richard Moody Swain
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780160937583
In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
Author : Lawrence Delbert Cress
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
This first study to discuss the important ideological role of the military in the early political life of the nation examines the relationship between revolutionary doctrine and the practical considerations of military planning before and after the American Revolution. Americans wanted and effective army, but they realized that by its very nature the military could destroy freedom as well as preserve it. The security of the new nation was not in dispute but the nature of republicanism itself. Originally published 1982. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : William H. McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 022616019X
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow—banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians to use against one another—to the nuclear missile, from the sociological consequences of drill in the seventeenth century to the emergence of the military-industrial complex in the twentieth. His central argument is that a commercial transformation of world society in the eleventh century caused military activity to respond increasingly to market forces as well as to the commands of rulers. Only in our own time, suggests McNeill, are command economies replacing the market control of large-scale human effort. The Pursuit of Power does not solve the problems of the present, but its discoveries, hypotheses, and sheer breadth of learning do offer a perspective on our current fears and, as McNeill hopes, "a ground for wiser action."