The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy

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Indiana University Press, 1977 - History - 584 pages

" . . . a strong and stimulating book. It has no rival in either scope or quality. For libraries, history buffs, and armchair warriors, it is a must. For political science students, career diplomats, and officers in the armed services, its reading should be required." —History

"A particularly timely account." —Kansas City Times

"It reads easily but is not a popularized history . . . nor does the book become a history of battles. . . . Weigley's analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." —Perspective

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Contents

WAGING WAR WITH LIMITED
1
The Federalists and the Jeffersonians
40
YOUNG AMERICA AS A MILITARY
57
R E Lee and the Confederacy
92
U S Grant and the Union
128
The Indian Fighters
153
INTRODUCTION TO WORLD
165
Strategy and the Great War of 19141918
192
AMERICAN STRATEGY IN GLOBAL
267
AMERICAN STRATEGY IN PERPLEXITY 1945
361
Douglas MacArthur
382
To the Vietnam War
441
NOTES
479
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN WRITINGS ON MILITARY
553
INDEX
563
Copyright

Billy Mitchell
223

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