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How America Goes to War This page intentionally left blank How America Goes to War Frank E. Vandiver Modern Military Tradition Jon L. Wakelyn, Series Editor PRAEGER Westport, Connecticut London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vandiver, FVank Everson, 1925- How America goes to war / Frank E. Vandiver. p. em. —(Modern military tradition) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-275-98514-8 (alk. paper) 1. United States —History, Militarv. 2. War and emergency powers — United States-History. I. Title. II. Series. E181.V36 2005 355!.033073'09-dc22 2005004212 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2005 bv The Estate of Frank E. Vandiver All rights reserved. No portion of this book mav be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2005004212 ISBN:'0-275-98514-8 ISSN: 1553-7196 First published in 2005 Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Croup, Inc. www.praeger.com Printed in the United States oi America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued bv the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a demo cratic country. . . . War does not always give over democratic com munities to military government, but it must invariably increase the powers of civil government. All those who seek to destroy the liber ties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it. —Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America This page intentionally left blank Contents Foreword by Jon Wakelyn ix Preface xi 1 The Whiskey Rebellion 1 2 Mr. Madison's War 11 3 The War with Mexico 21 4 The Civil War 31 5 The Spanish-American War 43 6 The Great War 51 7 The Second World War 63 8 Korea 75 viii • Contents 9 Vietnam 89 10 The Cold War 99 11 New War, Old Cost 111 12 The Fifth Horseman 127 Afterword 141 Notes 145 Further Reading 149 Index 151 Foreword Frank E. Vandiver passed away just after he delivered the finished text of this important work in military history to the publisher. A pioneer in the study of warfare and warriors, from his earliest work Vandiver understood the relationship between preparedness and the ability to fight. His book on Josiah Gorgas remains a landmark effort on the value of logistics in warfare. The countless articles and thematic books he wrote on the Civil War revealed to his peers his nearly effortless powers to describe men and their materiel of war. Flis Mighty Stonewall was the first work to reveal how that great captain Thomas J. Jackson prepared for and fought an of fensive war. Vandiver, always keen on the comparative dimension in war studies, next wrote the definitive biography of that great student of mod ern warfare, Black Jack Pershing. Vandiver's love of the Great War, and his time spent as Harmsworth Professor at Oxford, led to an enduring in terest in the career of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, about whom he had long planned to write a biography. Generations of readers and Vandiver's many students benefitted from both his work and his many friendships. From his first students at Wash ington University, to a generation of students trained at Rice University, to the gifted students he somehow7 managed to take on while serving as a dy namic president of Texas A&M, to his splendid mentoring of scholars at
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