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The Racial Integration of the American Armed Forces - Cold War Necessity, Presidential Leadership, and Southern Resistance (Hardcover)
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The Racial Integration of the American Armed Forces - Cold War Necessity, Presidential Leadership, and Southern Resistance (Hardcover)
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In order to win the Cold War, American presidents embraced the
mantra of equality of opportunity to justify racial reform efforts
within the US military. The problem was that equality of
opportunity never guaranteed acceptance-nor was it designed to. In
The Racial Integration of the American Armed Forces, Geoffrey W.
Jensen clarifies our understanding of the political processes that
fundamentally altered the racial composition of the American
military.Jensen examines nearly thirty years of military
integration that unfolded during the Cold War. America's racial
woes were grist for the propaganda mills in Moscow and their
integration effort was intended to curb this assault and protect
the nation's image during this largely ideological struggle. But
integration of the armed forces needed more than just Cold War
justification. It also required the willingness of the president to
lead. Military integration occurred as the result of the
longstanding tradition of Congress to allow the executive branch to
control the staffing and composition of the military. While past
accounts of the integration of the armed forces have focused on the
critical roles played by the burgeoning leadership of the civil
rights movement and the Black population, Jensen is the first to
emphasize the importance of presidential leadership and their
staffs. Jensen contends that understanding the action-and
inaction-of Cold War presidents and their administrations matters
just as much as understanding the efforts of those outside of
Washington and the West Wing, as it was the presidents who were the
ones dictating the pace at which reform was carried out. Jensen has
carefully situated this story within the milieu of the Cold War,
the civil rights movement, and, looming over it all, the emergence
of Southern resistance to desegregation in the United States.
Desperately committed to upholding and expanding their vision of
white supremacy, the South recoiled in horror at the prospect of
racially integrating the armed forces. From this vantage point,
Jensen shows how the use of Black military personnel during the
Cold War, and throughout all American history, was not born solely
out of humanistic beliefs or desires to improve the social status
of the Black community, but out of the strategic necessity of
winning the war at hand.
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