Army diplomacy : American military occupation and foreign policy after World War II / Walter M. Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Walter M. (Judge advocate)

Contributor:

John Penman Wood Library Fund.

Series:

Battles and campaigns (Lexington, Ky.)

Battles and campaigns

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military government.

History.

Military occupation.

United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.

United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1953.

World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories.

World War, 1939-1945.

Military occupation--History--20th century.

Military government--History--20th century.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

395 pages, 16 unnumber pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]

Summary:

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States Army became the principal agent of American foreign policy. The army designed, implemented, and .administered the occupations of the defeated Axis powers Germany and Japan, as well as many other nations. Generals such as Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, and John Hodge in Korea presided over these territories as proconsuls. At the beginning or the Cold War, more than 300 million people lived under some form of US military authority. The army's influence on nation-building at the time was profound, but most scholarship on foreign policy during this period concentrates on diplomacy at the highest levels of civilian government rather than the armed forces' governance at the local level. In Army Diplomacy, Hudson explains how US Army policies in the occupied nations represented the culmination of more than a century of military doctrine. His study draws on military sociology and institutional analysis as well as international relations theory to demonstrate how "bottom-up" decisions not only inform but also create higher-level policy This fascinating work offers a valuable perspective on an important yet underexplored facet of Cold War history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Military government planning prior to 1940

Military government doctrine, training, and organization, 1940-1941

FDR, interagency conflict, and military government, 1941-1942

North Africa and the establishment of the Civil Affairs Division, 1943

Planning and implementing military government in Germany, 1943-1946

Planning and implementing military government in Austria, 1943-1946

Planning and implementing military government in Korea, 1943-1946

Conclusion: the postwar occupation experience and its lessons for the army.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-373) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Penman Wood Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780813160979

0813160979

OCLC:

893451834