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This work provides too selective a history to lay any claim to comprehensive accuracy. It culls from the whole of Western experience enough supporting details to make a comprehensive argument, however, one that with a few modifications and corrections might stand the test of time in its broad interpretation. And that argument is simple; military organization in response to external threats shapes and helps determine the form and structure of government. When we combine this assertion with the moral opinion that liberal democracy is the most desirable form of governing, then a blueprint for action ensues. Specific organization and reorganization of extant military forces will promote and help maintain liberal democracy.
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Daniel Boorstin, The Americans (New York: Random House, 1958), 347.
See Erhard Geissler, Biological and Toxin Weapons Today (Oxford: University Press, 1986), 8.
Richard Preston, Alex Roland, and Sydney Wise, Arms and Men, fifth edition (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1991), 163.
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Joseph Bernardo and Eugene Bacon, American Military Policy (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1955), expand on and update the themes of Upton’s work.
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See Stanley Pargellis, Lord Loudoun in North America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933)
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See William Crotty, Political Reform and the American Experiment (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), 46.
See Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1832–1845 (New York: Praeger, 1984)
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Dolman, E.C. (2004). Post-Cold War Implications and the American Military. In: The Warrior State. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978264_6
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