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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Moten, Matthew, 1960-     Subjects     Presidents -- United States -- History.     Generals -- United States -- History.     Command of troops -- History.     Civil-military relations -- United States -- History.     United States -- History, Military.     United States -- Military policy.     United States -- Politics and government.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Moten, Matthew, 1960-       by title:      Presidents and their...         MARC Display

Presidents and their generals : an American history of command in war / Matthew Moten. by Moten, Matthew, 1960- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. Subjects Presidents -- United States -- History.   Generals -- United States -- History.   Command of troops -- History.   Civil-military relations -- United States -- History.   United States -- History, Military.   United States -- Military policy.   United States -- Politics and government. ISBN:  9780674058149 (hbk.) 0674058143 (hbk.) Description:  x, 443 pages : illustration ; 25 cm Contents:  I. Setting precedents -- George Washington and the Continental Congress -- Adams, Washington, and Hamilton -- Mr. Madison's war -- Polk against his generals -- Lincoln's letter to Hooker -- The politics of collaboration -- Lincoln and Grant -- The pershing paradox -- Roosevelt, Marshall, and Hopkins -- The perils of partisanship -- Exit MacArthur -- Taylor's theory -- Powell's doctrine -- Rumsfeld's assumptions. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Matthew Moten traces a sweeping history of the evolving roles of civilian and military leaders in conducting war, demonstrating how war strategy and national security policy shifted as political and military institutions developed, and how they were shaped by leaders’ personalities. Early presidents established the principle of military subordination to civil government, and from the Civil War to World War II the president’s role as commander-in-chief solidified, with an increasingly professionalized military offering its counsel. But General Douglas MacArthur’s insubordination to President Harry Truman during the Korean War put political-military tensions on public view. Subsequent presidents selected generals who would ally themselves with administration priorities. Military commanders in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan did just that—and the results were poorly conceived policy and badly executed strategy."--Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 355.00922 Mo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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