The book features insights from eight distinguished scholars who analyze how major powers during World War II assessed both their military strengths and those of their adversaries. Through various methodologies, the authors explore the strategic evaluations that influenced military decisions and outcomes, providing a comprehensive understanding of wartime intelligence and capacity assessment.
Focusing on the Korean War's critical phase from June 1950 to June 1951, this volume highlights the conflict as primarily a struggle between Koreans, while also addressing Cold War dynamics. Allan R. Millett intricately blends military strategies with civil-military relations, emphasizing the integration of naval and air forces with ground troops. The book offers a comprehensive view of South Korea's military role and incorporates diverse perspectives from key figures such as Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung. Millett's extensive research provides a nuanced narrative of this pivotal historical event.
Examines the nation's pluralistic military institutions in both peace and war, the tangled civil-military relations that created the country's commitment to civilian control of the military, the Armed Forces' increasing nationalization and professionalization, and America's growing reliance on sophisticated technologies spawned by the Industrial Revolution and the Computer and Information Ages. This edition is also a timely reminder that vigilance is indeed the price of liberty but that vigilance has always been--and continues to be--a costly, complex, and contentious undertaking in a world that continually tests America's willingness and ability to provide for the common defense