Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime Cohen Eliot A.Paperback
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime Cohen Eliot A.Paperback The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies…
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Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime Cohen Eliot A.Paperback
The orthodoxy regarding the relationship between politicians and military leaders in wartime democracies contends that politicians should declare a military operation's objectives and then step aside and leave the business of war to the military. Cohen chips away at this time-honored belief with case studies of statesmen who dared to prod, provoke, and even defy their military officers to great effect.Using the leadership of Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion to build his argument, Cohen offers compelling proof that, as Clemenceau put it, "War is too important to leave to the generals." By examining the shared leadership traits of four politicians who triumphed in extraordinarily varied military campaigns, Cohen argues that active In this timely and controversial examination of civilian-military relations in wartime democracies, Eliot A.