Author : Demetrios Caraley
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 1966
Category : United States
ISBN :
This is a study of the intense political conflict that took place between 1943 and 1947 over the unification of the military services.
Author : Kerry K. Gershaneck
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2020
Category : China
ISBN :
"Political Warfare provides a well-researched and wide-ranging overview of the nature of the People's Republic of China (PRC) threat and the political warfare strategies, doctrines, and operational practices used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The author offers detailed and illuminating case studies of PRC political warfare operations designed to undermine Thailand, a U.S. treaty ally, and Taiwan, a close friend"--
Author : David S. Sorenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313348448
The United States government invests billions each year on equipping armed forces with the most advanced military equipment. The root of the American defense acquisition system is driven by a combination of national interests and domestic political requirements. While fundamentally the defense acquisition system has produced results for the United States military, improvements are needed in order to continue to move forward in advancing military tactics and technology. Exploring both the systemic and political levels of the system, Sorenson argues that the United States will fall behind if the current defense acquisition system is not reformed. This book brings together elements of this complicated system, such as national security requirements, and the changes that are needed in both the structural and political pillars. A combination of political interests and the needs of the military, serviced by an ever-shrinking defense industry, make a genuine acquisition reform even more difficult, resulting in reform that is more symbolic than genuine.
Author : Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0691227993
When George C. Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he faced not only a staggering array of serious foreign policy questions but also a State Department rendered ineffective by neglect, maladministration, and low morale. Soon after his arrival Marshall asked George F. Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure--the Policy Planning Staff. Here Wilson Miscamble scrutinizes Kennan's subsequent influence over foreign policymaking during the crucial years from 1947 to 1950.
Author : Paolo Enrico Coletta
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874131260
This book provides a historical background to the problems met during the early days of defense unification of the three U.S. military services: the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force. The author analyzes the problem of unification during both peacetime and wartime, showing how the Korean War served to point up the capabilities and limitations of the three services.
Author : James E. Hewes
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Military administration
ISBN :
Author : Amy B. Zegart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080474131X
Challenging the belief that national security agencies work well, this book asks what forces shaped the initial design of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council in ways that meant they were handicapped from birth.
Author : David Jablonsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0300155689
In this book a retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower’s lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower’s career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower’s efforts to implement a unified command in the U.S. military—a concept that eventually led to the current organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and that, almost three decades after Eisenhower’s presidency, played a major role in defense reorganization under the Goldwater-Nichols Act. In the new century, Eisenhower’s approach continues to animate reform discussion at the highest level of government in terms of the interagency process.
Author : Clark A. Murdock
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780873952521
When Robert McNamara became U.S. Secretary of Defense, he introduced a new mode of making policy decisions: systems analysis. In Defense Policy Formation, Clark Murdock examines what effects this systems analysis had on policy-making process both in theory and the actual practice of military innovation.
Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1400888433
How the conflict between federal and state power has shaped American history American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their lives; on the other hand, they have repeatedly enlisted governmental help to impose their views regarding marriage, abortion, religion, and schooling on their neighbors. These contradictory stances on the role of public power have paralyzed policymaking and generated rancorous disputes about government’s legitimate scope. How did we reach this political impasse? Historian Gary Gerstle, looking at two hundred years of U.S. history, argues that the roots of the current crisis lie in two contrasting theories of power that the Framers inscribed in the Constitution. One theory shaped the federal government, setting limits on its power in order to protect personal liberty. Another theory molded the states, authorizing them to go to extraordinary lengths, even to the point of violating individual rights, to advance the "good and welfare of the commonwealth." The Framers believed these theories could coexist comfortably, but conflict between the two has largely defined American history. Gerstle shows how national political leaders improvised brilliantly to stretch the power of the federal government beyond where it was meant to go—but at the cost of giving private interests and state governments too much sway over public policy. The states could be innovative, too. More impressive was their staying power. Only in the 1960s did the federal government, impelled by the Cold War and civil rights movement, definitively assert its primacy. But as the power of the central state expanded, its constitutional authority did not keep pace. Conservatives rebelled, making the battle over government’s proper dominion the defining issue of our time. From the Revolution to the Tea Party, and the Bill of Rights to the national security state, Liberty and Coercion is a revelatory account of the making and unmaking of government in America.
