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With one exception, the papers which comprise this book were read at a conference on civil - military relations held at Ohio State University under the auspices of the Mershon National Security Program on February 27 - 28, 1959. After the conference, the authors revised and in some cases enlarged their papers for publication. Professor William Emerson, of Yale University, read a paper on Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commander in Chief, but owing to the pressure of other academic commitments, he was unable to put his paper into publishable form. In place of Professor Emerson's paper, another on the same subject by Maurice Matloff of the Office of the Chief of Military History, Headquarters, Department of the Army, has been substituted.
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Excerpt from Total War and Cold War: Problems in Civilian Control of the Military This book of essays deals with the subject of civil-military relations in an era of total war and cold war. The problem of the proper role of the armed forces in government is not new: it is in fact as old as organized government itself, and some of the best minds from Plato to Marx have grappled with it. Though by no means new, the question of control of the military has taken on unprecedented dimensions and implications in the nuclear age. For the first time in modern history, the democracies of the Western world are forced in peacetime to devote a major part of their material resources and intellectual energies to the problems of survival. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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