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

by Thomas S. Langston

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874211
• ISBN13: 9780801874215
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 9.1"