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War by land, sea, and air : Dwight Eisenhower and the concept of unified command / David Jablonsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jablonsky, David.
- Series:
- Yale library of military history.
- The Yale library of military history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969--Military leadership.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Allied Forces--Organization.
- Allied Forces.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Armed Forces--Organization.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff--Chairmen--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Unified operations (Military science)--History--20th century.
- Unified operations (Military science).
- Combined operations (Military science)--History--20th century.
- Combined operations (Military science).
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- United States--Armed Forces--Organization.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States--History, Military--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book a retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower's lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U.S. military-a concept that eventually led to the current organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and that, almost three decades after Eisenhower's presidency, played a major role in defense reorganization under the Goldwater-Nichols Act. In the new century, Eisenhower's approach continues to animate reform discussion at the highest level of government in terms of the interagency process.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE. Formative Years, 1903-1941
- PART TWO. Wartime Unified Command, 1941-1942
- PART THREE. Wartime Unity of Command and Effort, 1942-1945
- PART FOUR. Peacetime Unification, 1945-1950
- PART FIVE. Peacetime Unity of Effort and Command, 1950-1952
- PART SIX. Peacetime Unification and Unity of Effort and Command, 1952-1958
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-46395-9
- 0-300-15568-9
- OCLC:
- 1024020952
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