Creating the national security state : a history of the law that transformed America /

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For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic struggles that surrounded the passage and in...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Stuart, Douglas T.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Sujets:
1900-1999
National security > Law and legislation > United States > History > 20th century.
LAW > Taxation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom.
Military readiness > Law and legislation
Military policy > Decision making
National security > Law and legislation
United States > Defenses > Law and legislation.
United States > Military policy > Decision making.
United States
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A farewell to normalcy
  • "One man is responsible": managing national security during World War II
  • Marshall's Plan: the battle over postwar unification of the armed forces
  • Eberstadt's Plan: "active, intimate and continuous relationships"
  • Connecting the domestic ligaments of national security
  • From the national military establishment to the Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • Closing the phalanx: the establishment of the NSC and the CIA, 1947-1960.

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