Series Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Introduction: The Quest for a National Military Policy, 1878-1920
Part 1
Creating the Citizen Army, 1919-1925
1. Disappointment and Disillusionment: The Army and the Nation, 1920-1925
2. The Heart of the Policy: Creating the New Citizen Army
Part II
The Army in the Era of Stability, 1926-1929: Creating the Branches
3. Stabilizing the Relationship: The Army and the Nation in the Era of Stability
4. The Civilian Components in the Era of Stability
5. Creating Orthodoxy and Predictability: Professional Military Education in the Army, 1919-1939
6. Building a Throne for the Queen: Infantry Branch Organization and Branch Culture in the 1920s
7. Branch Stagnation: American Field Artillery, 1919-1939
8. End of the Big Guns: Mission and Branch Identity Crisis in the Coast Artillery, 1919-1939
Part III
Mechanizing the Army, 1930-1939
9. The Army Besieged: The Army and the Nation in the Decade of the Depression, 1930-1939
10. Stability amid Crisis: The Civilian Components in the 1930s
11. Modern Weapons and Traditional Tactics: The Infantry and Tanks, 1919-1939
12. Mounts or Motors? The Cavalry and Its Response to Mechanization, 1919-1939
Conclusion
Abbreviations Used in Citations
Notes
Bibliography