To raise and discipline an army : Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General's Office and the realignment of civil and military relations in World War I / Joshua E. Kastenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kastenberg, Joshua E., 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crowder, E. H. (Enoch Herbert), 1859-1932.

Crowder, E. H.

United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General--Biography.

United States.

Judge advocates--United States--Biography.

Judge advocates.

Civil-military relations--United States--History--20th century.

Civil-military relations.

World War, 1914-1918--Law and legislation--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Dekalb, [Illinois] : Northern Illinois University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General's Office—the legal arm of the United States Army—from thirteen uniformed attorneys to more than four hundred. Crowder's recruitment of some of the nation's leading legal scholars, as well as former congressmen and state supreme court judges, helped legitimize President Woodrow Wilson's wartime military and legal policies. As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army numbered about 120,000 soldiers. The Judge Advocate General's Office was instrumental in extending the military's reach into the everyday lives of citizens to enable the construction of an army of more than four million soldiers by the end of the war. Under Crowder's leadership, the office was responsible for the creation and administration of the Selective Service Act, under which thousands of men were drafted into military service, as well as enforcement of the Espionage Act and wartime prohibition. In this first published history of the Judge Advocate General's Office between the years of 1914 and 1922, Joshua Kastenberg examines not only courts-martial, but also the development of the laws of war and the changing nature of civil-military relations. The Judge Advocate General's Office influenced the legislative and judicial branches of the government to permit unparalleled assertions of power, such as control over local policing functions and the economy. Judge advocates also altered the nature of laws to recognize a person's diminished mental health as a defense in criminal trials, influenced the assertion of US law overseas, and affected the evolving nature of the law of war. This groundbreaking study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers of US history, as well as military, legal, and political historians.

Contents:

Enoch Crowder and the Wilson presidency

Staffing and directing the Judge Advocate General's Department: duties and discipline

The conscripting and training of a disciplined force

Judge advocates in the AEF

International law and administrative duties in war and after the Armistice

Political oversight of military discipline

Courts-martial, concerns over subversion, and conscientious objection

Courts-martial and discipline controversy: 1918-1920

Conclusion: return to normalcy and a forgotten history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501758041

1501758047

9781609092139

1609092139

OCLC:

971021064