Peace War And Partnership

Covering the period from World War II through the Trump presidency, Peace, War, and Partnership: Congress and the Military since World War II unpacks the vital and dynamic relationship between Congress and the military, two entities that have worked together, at times with different purposes, to solve myriad important issues impacting the United States in both peace and war. Congress and the military have had their periods of cooperation. However, they have also had alternating periods of resistance to each other, based on distinct conceptions of national interests and divergent strategies. Their partnership has been a symbiotic relationship in which one entity or the other has ebbed and flowed in power depending on the circumstances. They have altered each other in far-reaching ways and transformed American society as a result of their liaisons. Peace, War, and Partnership analyzes the significant, powerful, and central relationship between Congress and the military. It investigates intersections of policy, politics, and society to theorize the impact of this relationship on the United States in the modern era. This work also offers a better understanding of earlier attempts by policy makers in Congress and the military to provide national security, contextualizing highly relevant current issues such as military service, proliferation, foreign intervention, national security, joint operations, diplomacy, alliances, mobilization, post-conflict resolution, citizenship, and military innovation. It illuminates crucial questions involving military policies in American democracy, and their sway on America historically and today, sparking and informing public debate about its implications now and for the future.

A military analyst delivers a revelatory account of the remarkable, evolving relationship forged between George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower during World War II and into the Cold War.

Profiles the fateful military partnership between the U.S. Army chief-of-staff and future president during World War II and into the Cold War years, citing their collaboration on major battles, Marshall's influence on Eisenhower's subsequent military and political career, and the reversal in their positions toward the end of the war. Reprint.

This volume investigates the nature and substance of the 'partnership' relations that have developed between Russia and NATO since the end of the Cold War.

The research reveals that both Poland and Germany view PfP as the first step on a path to NATO membership for at least some of the partner countries, most of all Poland.

This is a collection of papers presented at the Marshall Legacy Symposium: Partnerships for the Future, held in Washington, D.C. in January 1996 involving 450 civilian and military leaders from forty-three NATO and Partnership for Peace countries. The aim of the symposium was to promote peace, democracy and prosperity by encouraging improved relations among the countries of Europe and with the United States. Co-published with the Program on Transitions to Democracy.Contents: Partnerships for Peace: U.S. Perspectives; European Perspectives; International Civil-Military Cooperation. Parterships to Encourage Democracy. Partnerships for Prosperity. The Marshall Legacy--Implications for the Future. Partnerships in the Information Age. Future International Challeges. Appendices.