Uneasy Balance
Title | Uneasy Balance PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas S. Langston |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2004-12-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0801881455 |
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 became the tool of a divisive partisan program. As a result, when Reconstruction ended, so did popular support of the military. After the Vietnam War, military leaders were too successful in defending their institution against civilian commanders, leading some observers to declare a crisis in civil-military relations even before Bill Clinton became commander-in-chief. Is American military policy balanced today? No, but it may well be headed in that direction. At the end of the 1990s there was still no clear direction in military policy. The officer corps stubbornly clung to a Cold War force structure. A civilian-minded commander-in-chief, meanwhile, stretched a shrinking force across the globe. With the shocking events of September 11, 2001, clarifying the seriousness of the post-Cold War military policy, we may at last be moving toward a true realignment of civilian and military imperatives.
Uneasy Manhood
Title | Uneasy Manhood PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hicks |
Publisher | Fleming H Revell Company |
Total Pages | 251 |
Release | 1997-04-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780800756161 |
Chaplain Robert Hicks asks why men feel so uneasy as friends, fathers, and husbands--and finds the answer in our changing and confusing culture. He points the way to a strong, balanced manhood in relationship with God.
The Uneasy Balance
Title | The Uneasy Balance PDF eBook |
Author | Riccardo Alcaro |
Publisher | Edizioni Nuova Cultura |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 886812050X |
In the Shadow of War
Title | In the Shadow of War PDF eBook |
Author | Michael S. Sherry |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 628 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780300072631 |
Prize-winning historian Michael S. Sherry shows how war has defined modern America and argues that militarization has reshaped every facet of American life--its politics, economics, culture, social relations, and place in the world. 17 illustrations.
Area Handbook for Japan
Title | Area Handbook for Japan PDF eBook |
Author | American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 872 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN |
The Dialectics of Liberation
Title | The Dialectics of Liberation PDF eBook |
Author | David Cooper |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2015-06-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1781688931 |
A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues. Edited by David Cooper, The Dialectics of Liberation compiles interventions from congress contributors Stokely Carmichael, Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Paul Sweezy, and others, to explore the roots of social violence. Against a backdrop of rising student frustration, racism, class inequality, and environmental degradation—a setting familiar to readers today—the conference aimed to create genuine revolutionary momentum by fusing ideology and action on the levels of the individual and of mass society. The Dialectics of Liberation captures the rise of a forceful style of political activity that came to characterize the following years.
The English Review
Title | The English Review PDF eBook |
Author | Ford Madox Ford |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 600 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Modernism (Literature) |
ISBN |