Modernizing the American War Department

Change and Continuity in a Turbulent Era, 1885-1920

Nonfiction, History, Military, Strategy, United States
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Author: Daniel Beaver ISBN: 9781631010200
Publisher: The Kent State University Press Publication: January 20, 2013
Imprint: The Kent State University Press Language: English
Author: Daniel Beaver
ISBN: 9781631010200
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Publication: January 20, 2013
Imprint: The Kent State University Press
Language: English

An important study of the evolution of the U.S. War Department

Not a simple, linear administrative history, Modernizing the American War Department is a unique study of the adjustment of nineteenth-century military organizations to the managerial, technological, and policy challenges of a new era.

The story unfolds against a backdrop of massive industrial and technological changes, as the country moved from a traditional agricultural and market-based commercial system toward a modern organization utilizing twentieth-century managerial structures and concepts. Although the overview ranges from 1820, when John C. Calhoun established the foundations of the American military system, to the coming of the Second World War, it concentrates on the critical, fulcrum years from 1885 to 1920 when the army faced the challenges of the Progressive Era and the First World War. Distinguished military historian Daniel R. Beaver uses primary and secondary sources to demonstrate how the changes affected military institutions and the soldiers and civilians who shaped and were shaped by them.

Students and scholars of military history will find Modernizing the American War Department to be an important addition to the study of the professionalization of the armed services.

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An important study of the evolution of the U.S. War Department

Not a simple, linear administrative history, Modernizing the American War Department is a unique study of the adjustment of nineteenth-century military organizations to the managerial, technological, and policy challenges of a new era.

The story unfolds against a backdrop of massive industrial and technological changes, as the country moved from a traditional agricultural and market-based commercial system toward a modern organization utilizing twentieth-century managerial structures and concepts. Although the overview ranges from 1820, when John C. Calhoun established the foundations of the American military system, to the coming of the Second World War, it concentrates on the critical, fulcrum years from 1885 to 1920 when the army faced the challenges of the Progressive Era and the First World War. Distinguished military historian Daniel R. Beaver uses primary and secondary sources to demonstrate how the changes affected military institutions and the soldiers and civilians who shaped and were shaped by them.

Students and scholars of military history will find Modernizing the American War Department to be an important addition to the study of the professionalization of the armed services.

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