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Canada and the United States

Matthew Moten. The Delafield Commission and the American Military Profession. (Texas A&M University Military History Series, number 67.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2000. Pp. xvii, 270. $47.95.

An issue that has long been a focus of interest for military historians is the professionalization of the American army. In 1959, Samuel P. Huntington's book, The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations, established the norm for the subject, and historians since that time have accepted it as the standard to be contested. Numerous scholars—notably Russell F. Weigley, Allan R. Millett, John M. Gates, Edward M. Coffman, and William B. Skelton—have concluded that Huntington's argument about the chronology of professionalism and its characteristics is not accurate. Huntington argued that the American officer corps did not become professional until after the Civil War, when it was isolated in the West from American society as a whole. Other historians debate whether officers were indeed isolated and whether it was as late as the post-Civil War years that the American army became professional. 1

In this new book, Matthew Moten enters into the discussion. He provides a detailed and insightful account of a pre-Civil War military commission to Europe to assess the extent of professionalism in the American army before the Civil War. . . .

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