Defense, United States Department of:

See W. Millis, Arms and Men: A Study of American Military History (New York: Mentor Books),1956; C. W. Borklund, The Department of Defense (1968) and with G. Foster, Paradoxes of Power (1983).

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• Introduction
• Creation
• History
• Bibliography

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