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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463111803321

Autore

Jablonsky David

Titolo

War by land, sea, and air [[electronic resource] ] : Dwight Eisenhower and the concept of unified command / / David Jablonsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-299-46395-9

0-300-15568-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Collana

The Yale library of military history

Disciplina

973.921092

B

Soggetti

Unified operations (Military science) - History - 20th century

Combined operations (Military science) - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Western Front

Electronic books.

United States Armed Forces Organization

United States Military policy

United States History, Military 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Formative Years, 1903-1941 -- PART TWO. Wartime Unified Command, 1941-1942 -- PART THREE. Wartime Unity of Command and Effort, 1942-1945 -- PART FOUR. Peacetime Unification, 1945-1950 -- PART FIVE. Peacetime Unity of Effort and Command, 1950-1952 -- PART SIX. Peacetime Unification and Unity of Effort and Command, 1952-1958 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book a retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower's lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower's career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores Eisenhower's efforts to implement a unified command in the U.S. military-a concept that eventually led to the current organization of the



Joint Chiefs of Staff and that, almost three decades after Eisenhower's presidency, played a major role in defense reorganization under the Goldwater-Nichols Act. In the new century, Eisenhower's approach continues to animate reform discussion at the highest level of government in terms of the interagency process.