Promotional Information

This book explores civil-military relations during World War II. The war led to dramatic changes in civil-military relations that were institutionalized after the war in the national security state. The book examines three main areas of civil-military relations: industrial mobilization, command relations, and manpower to find the roots of the postwar transformations.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter One :Pre-World War II Developments in Civil-Military Relations Chapter Two :Civil-Military Battles over Domestic Mobilization Chapter Three :Civil-Military Command Relations Chapter Four :Citizens and Soldiers Chapter Five :The Postwar Civil-Military Synthesis: Building the National Security State Conclusion Index

About the Author

Brian Waddell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He has published many articles and a book on the relationship between the New Deal, World War II, and the establishment of the American national security state. He has also written on the postwar development of both the welfare state and the national security state in a forthcoming policy book entitled What American Government Does.

Reviews

Waddell traces the formation and the development of the national security state with chapters on military- corporate relations during the US mobilization for war, relations between war president Franklin D. Roosevelt and his military commanders, and the civil-military tensions that arose while the US mobilized its citizenry for military service. .. Waddell's balanced bibliography and endnotes demonstrate an attempt to synthesize the work of other scholars. Most useful to students and scholars interested in the development of the security state and power relations between the civilian, military, and corporate sectors.
*Choice*

This is an important and valuable work. . . . it offers an excellent summary and synthesis of research in civil-military relations during World War II and their impact on the national security state that emerged after the war.
*Political Science Quarterly*