Although the military-industrial complex became familiar to most
Americans during the Cold War, Paul Koistinen shows that its
origins actually go back to the dawn of this century. "Mobilizing
for Modern War," the second of an extraordinary five-volume study
on the political economy of American warfare, highlights the
emergence of this pivotal relationship. In this volume, Koistinen
examines war planning and mobilizing in an era of rapid
industrialization and reveals how economic mobilization for defense
and war is shaped at the national level by the interaction of
political, economic, and military institutions and by increasingly
powerful and expensive weaponry.
Covering the Gilded Age and Progressive Era through the
Spanish-American War and World War I, Mobilizing for Modern War
shows how a partnership evolved between government and business to
prepare for and conduct modern warfare. This partnership was an
extension of Progressive regulatory reforms, but it had to include
a professionalized army and navy in order to handle the new
technology of war. Koistinen traces the origins of the
military-industrial complex to the emergence of a modern navy at
the turn of the century, when building a new fleet of steel, armor,
and ordnance required a production team of political leaders, naval
officers, and businessmen. A similar team was brought together
again between 1915 and 1918 as the War Industries Board to mobilize
the economy for World War I, and it became the model for subsequent
industrial mobilization planning.
Koistinen shows how mobilizing for World War I left an indelible
imprint on twentieth-century life. By accelerating the emerging
Progressive political economy, it strengthened the cooperative
planning ethic within business and government and introduced the
concept of industrial preparedness, carried out largely under
military leadership. Relating events of this period to what
preceded and followed, Koistinen convincingly argues that in this
century warfare has shaped the nation's social institutions and
ideology even more than reform. Mobilizing for Modern War is marked
by outstanding research and cogent analysis and yields fresh
insights not only about the conduct of conflict, but also about
war's effects on peacetime affairs.
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