The Progressive Army: US Army Command and Administration, 1870–1914

Barr, Ronald J.

The author seeks to explain the creation of a modern American Army in a country hostile to centralised military power. The effect of various European nations on the US military are examined. The central theme, however, is how a small number of influential figures impressed with US business borrowed management techniques from national corporations to modernise the army. It is argued these military reforms represented a wider influence in the progressive era which sought to utilise management techniques developed by US business to improve government.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349268900

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26888-7

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 225