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Hardcover Uneasy Balance: Civil-Military Relations in Peacetime America Since 1783 Book

ISBN: 0801874211

ISBN13: 9780801874215

Uneasy Balance: Civil-Military Relations in Peacetime America Since 1783

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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...

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