BACKGROUND B
Perhaps the best long view of the
U.S. military is The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy (Mac-millan, 1973, cloth; Ind. Univ., 1977, paper). Russell Weigley describes the military-political ups and downs of American history from the Battle of Bunker Hill to the battles in Viet- nam. Some of Weigley's assertions are debatable, notably his thesis that, as its resources grew, the U.S. military usually came to favor an "anni-hilative"...