| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Michael D. Pearlman. Warmaking and American Democracy: The Struggle over Military Strategy, 1700 to the Present. (Modern War Studies.) Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1999. Pp. ix, 441. $45.00.

With this impressive volume, Michael D. Pearlman adds to the rich and provocative Modern War Studies series of the University Press of Kansas. In fewer than 400 pages, he covers the vicissitudes of formulating military strategy in America's "pluralist democracy" from colonial times through Vietnam and beyond. An unstable and unpredictable civilian "triad"—president, Congress, and the public—complicates the conduct of war, Pearlman argues, by denying the armed services central and consistent direction. Pearlman's ambitious volume is based primarily on secondary sources, and he uses an abbreviated endnote structure. . . .

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