This text seeks to explain the creation of a modern American Army in a country hostile to centralized military power. The effects of various European nations on the US are examined. The central theme of this book, however, is how a small number of influential figures impressed with US business borrowed management techniques from national corporations to modernize the army. It is argued these military reforms represented a wider influence in the progressive era which sought to utilize management techniques developed by US business to improve government.
- ISBN10 0333710487
- ISBN13 9780333710487
- Publish Date 14 September 1998 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English