The American Warfare State : The Domestic Politics of Military Spending /

How is it that the United States-a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power-came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military read...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thorpe, Rebecca U. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Colección:Chicago Series on International and Domestic Institutions
Temas:
Civil-military relations > United States.
Geschichte
Militär
Militärausgaben
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Kriegführung
Sicherheitspolitik
Militärökonomie
Oberbefehlshaber
Operation > Militär
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
military spending, army, weaponry, defense budgets, politics, political science, congress, government, war, mobilization, conscription, readiness, national security, debt, expenditures, appropriations, armed forces, pork barrel, contracting, nonfiction, economics, constituency interests, dod budget, local economies, military-industrial complex, presidency.
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