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Eberstadt and Forrestal : A National Security Partnership, 1909-1949 Texas A & M University Military History Series ; 21
author
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Dorwart, Jeffery M.
publisher
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Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0890964696
print isbn13
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9780890964699
ebook isbn13
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9780585147376
language
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English
subject
Industrial mobilization--United States, United States--History, Military--20th century, World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects, Eberstadt, Ferdinand, Forrestal, James,--1892-1949.
publication date
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1991
lcc
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UA18.U5D67 1991eb
ddc
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355.2/6/0973
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Industrial mobilization--United States, United States--History, Military--20th century, World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects, Eberstadt, Ferdinand, Forrestal, James,--1892-1949.
Eberstadt and Forrestal
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Eberstadt and Forrestal
A National Security Partnership, 1909-1949
Jeffery M. Dorwart
Texas A & M University Press College Station
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Copyright 1991 by Jeffery M. Dorwart Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First Edition
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dorwart, Jeffery M., 1994 Eberstadt and Forrestal : a national security partnership, 1909-1949 / Jeffery M. Dorwart.1st ed. p. cm.-(Texas A & M University military history series ; 21) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-89096-469-6 1. Industrial mobilizationUnited States. 2. United States History, Military20th century. 3. World War, 1939-1945Economic aspects. 4. Eberstadt, Ferdinand. 5. Forrestal, James, 1892-1949. I. Title. II. Series. UA18.U5D67 1991 355.2'6'0973dc20 91-8769 CIP
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Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
vii
1. Eberstadt, Forrestal, and the Good Man Concept
3
2. The Partners' Education, 1909-1939
11
3. Mobilization, 1940-1942
30
4. Controlled Materials, 1942-1944
49
5. Reconversion and Unification, 1944-1945
69
6. A National Security Plan, 1945
90
7. Politics of the Eberstadt Report, 1945-1946
108
8. Shaping America's First National Security Law, 1946-1947
131
9. End of a Partnership, 1947-1949
149
10. The Eberstadt-Forrestal Legacy
171
Appendix: Names from the Good Man Lists, 1929-1950
181
Notes
184
Bibliography
214
Index
231
Page vii
Preface and Acknowledgments
The National Security Act of 1947 has been blamed for everything from the creation of a military-industrial complex to the onset of the Cold War, from CIA excesses to "chilling" National Security Council conduct, and from bloated Pentagon budgets to bitter feuds among the armed services. In 1983 one critic wrote that "the tragedy of the National Security Act of 1947 was that it allowed perpetuation of four separate air forces," which meant that the public was "paying an enormous price in duplication for this flaw.'' Another critic of the American national security establishment, journalist Arthur T. Hadley claimed that the 1947 law contributed to American military failures in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Angola, and Libya. Hadley insisted that the chaotic creation of 1947 caused the disastrous Iranian rescue mission of April, 1980. Hadley condemned the flawed national security organization for making the United States into a "straw giant," with its military weakened by interservice rivalries, devoid of a strategic plan, strangled by a ponderous bureaucracy, and divorced from civilian leaders and public.1
Some of the criticism has come from those who advocate a particular form of American defense organization or oppose American involvement in conflicts such as the Vietnam War. Their views cannot be dismissed simply as the parochial perspective of special service interests or the protestations of antiwar critics. Over the years, American national security organization has not always operated efficiently or economically and has suffered a number of serious setbacks and failures. Those problems prompt numerous questions: How did the United States build such a flawed system of national security? Who was responsible for its creation? Why was the National Security Act a chaotic piece of legislation and what form of organization did it construct? What did the law actually do?
The study presented here shows that the origins and creation of a large-scale organization for American national security were complex and convoluted, arising from a number of interrelated events and sources. The development of national security structures was rooted in the larger process
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