02317cam a2200265 4500 547089604 TxAuBib 20120719120000.0 170216s1984||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 8413652 9780029215807 0029215803 TxAuBib Millett, Allan R. For the common defense : a military history of the United States of America. New York, NY : The Free Press, 1984. 621 p. Acknowledgments, Introduction ; A dangerous new world, 1607-1689, The Colonial Wars, 1689-1763, The American Revolution, 1763-1783, Preserving the New Republic’s Independence, 1783-1815, The Armed Forces and National Expansion, 1815-1860, The Civil War, 1861-1862, The Civil War, 1863-1865, From Postwar Demobilization toward great power status, 1865-1898, The birth of an American empire, 1898-1902, Building the military forces of a world power, 1899-1917, The United States fights in the “War to end all wars,”, 1917-1918, Military policy between the two world wars, 1919-1939, The United States and World War II, from the edge of defeat to the edge of victory, 1939-1943, The United States and World War II, the road to victory, 193-1945, Cold war and hot war, the United States enters the Age of Nuclear deterrence and collective security, 1945-1953, Waging cold war, American defense policy for extended deterrence and containment, 1953-1965, In dubious battle, the war for Vietnam and the erosion of American military power, 1961-1975 ; Epilogue, The common defense in an age of uncertainty ; General bibliography, Index. For the Common Defense examines the nation’s pluralistic military institutions in both peace and war, the tangled civil-military relations that created the country’s commitment to civilian control of the military, the armed forces’ increasing nationalization and professionalization, and America’s growing reliance on sophisticated technologies spawned by the Industrial Revolution and the Computer and Information Ages. 20120719. United States History, Military. United States Armed Forces History. Maslowski, Peter. TXKDM