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Supreme Command Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

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ISBN-10: 1400034043

ISBN-13: 9781400034048

Edition: 2002

Authors: Eliot A. Cohen

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The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a military operation's objectives and then step aside and leave the business of war to the military. In this timely and controversial examination of civilian-military relations in wartime democracies, Eliot A. Cohen chips away at this time-honored belief with case studies of statesmen who dared to prod, provoke, and even defy their military officers to great effect. Using the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion to build his argument, Cohen offers compelling proof that, as Clemenceau put it,…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.96" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.484

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University where he also serves as director of the university's Center for International Relations. He is the author of The Pentomic Era: The U.S. Army Between Korea and Vietnam.Eliot Cohen is professor of strategic studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, where he is also the founding director of the Center for Strategic Education. He is the coauthor of Revolution in Warfare?: Air Power in the Persian Gulf.

Preface
The Soldier and the Statesman
Lincoln Sends a Letter
Clemenceau Pays a Visit
Churchill Asks a Question
Ben-Gurion Holds a Seminar
Leadership Without Genius
The Unequal Dialogue
The Theory of Civilian Control
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index