How Long to Read Uneasy Balance

How Long Does it Take to Read Uneasy Balance?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 36 minutes to read Uneasy Balance by Thomas S. Langston

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the first book to focus on civil-military tensions after American wars, Thomas Langston challenges conventional theory by arguing that neither civilian nor military elites deserve victory in this perennial struggle. What is needed instead, he concludes, is balance. In America's worst postwar episodes, those that followed the Civil War and the Vietnam War, balance was conspicuously absent. In the late 1860s and into the 1870s, the military became the tool of a divisive partisan program. As a result, when Reconstruction ended, so did popular support of the military. After the Vietnam War, military leaders were too successful in defending their institution against civilian commanders, leading some observers to declare a crisis in civil-military relations even before Bill Clinton became commander-in-chief. Is American military policy balanced today? No, but it may well be headed in that direction. At the end of the 1990s there was still no clear direction in military policy. The officer corps stubbornly clung to a Cold War force structure. A civilian-minded commander-in-chief, meanwhile, stretched a shrinking force across the globe. With the shocking events of September 11, 2001, clarifying the seriousness of the post-Cold War military policy, we may at last be moving toward a true realignment of civilian and military imperatives.

How long is Uneasy Balance?

Uneasy Balance by Thomas S. Langston is 209 pages long, and a total of 54,131 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Uneasy Balance Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 55 minutes to read Uneasy Balance aloud.

What Reading Level is Uneasy Balance?

Uneasy Balance is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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