The American warfare state : the domestic politics of military spending / Rebecca U. Thorpe.

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How is it that the United States—a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power—came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military read...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thorpe, Rebecca U. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Series:	Chicago series on international and domestic institutions. Chicago studies in American politics.
Subjects:	United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures. Civil-military relations > United States.
Physical Description:	xi, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format:	Book

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