--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the summary, Gautam. That was exactly the > sort of thing I > was looking for. I imagine it would have taken me > weeks or more to > obtain that information by my own research. And > _Supreme Command_ sounds > interesting, I'll add it to my "to read" list.
My pleasure. I daresay I made at least a couple of mistakes, though - it's been at least a couple of years since I looked at the issue in detail. I imagine that someone here will correct me if I did. _Supreme Command_ almost made me cry. Largely because when I was tossing around potential dissertation topics, one of my two favorites was trying to draw general principles on democratic leadership in wartime based on Lincoln, Churchill, and Ben-Gurion. Cohen added in Clemenceau and wrote the book - coming to the exact same conclusions that I think I would have. Damn it. I kept reading it and going "I could have written that!" It really is marvelous, though. Be warned, it might improve your opinion of Bush :-) The Iraq campaign might as well have used _Supreme Command_ as a textbook on how civilians control militaries. Bush was seen reading it soon after it came out, probably not by coincidence, and Cohen himself is quite influential within the Administration. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
