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Summary:"The inside story of the forty-year battle between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and America's civilian leaders."

Print Book, English, 1989

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1989

Genre:History

Physical Description:xviii, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780395429235, 0395429234

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:18744815

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Contents:

An admiral and a general

Flimsy, Buff, and Green

The debate

Coup d'état

The war of the chiefs

Whiz kids and wise men

Crisis

Politics

Protracted warfare

Semper fidelis