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Sovereign soldiers how the U.S. military transformed the global economy after World War II

In Sovereign Soldiers, Grant Madsen tells the story of how this cast of characters assumed an unfamiliar and often untold policymaking role. Seeking to avoid the harsh punishments meted out after World War I, military leaders believed they had to rebuild and rehabilitate their former enemies; if the...

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Main Author: Madsen, Grant (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
Subjects:
Economic history > 1945-1971
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Japan
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Germany
United States > Economic policy > 1945-1960
United States > Armed forces > Stability operations
United States > Foreign economic relations > History > 20th century
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Table of Contents:
  • When the military became an external state
  • The war, the economy, and the army
  • The army is a time of depression
  • The army, the New Deal, and the planning for the postwar
  • "This thing was assembled by economic idiots"
  • The army creates a plan for Germany
  • A German "miracle"
  • Political progress in Japan--and economic decline
  • "Recovery without fiction"
  • Implementing the "Dodge line"
  • Truman and Eisenhower
  • "The Great Equation"
  • Protecting the global economy

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