The author seeks to explain the creation of a modern American Army in a country hostile to centralised military power. The effect of various European nations on the US military are examined. The central theme, however, is how a small number of influential figures impressed with US business borrowed management techniques from national corporations to modernise the army. It is argued these military reforms represented a wider influence in the progressive era which sought to utilise management techniques developed by US business to improve government.

Ronald J. Barr is Lecturer in History at University College Chester.

Dedication Contents Page List of Maps and Tables Preface Acknowledgements The American Army in the Late Nineteenth Century `No End of a Lesson': America and the Spanish-American War Early Army Reform and the Election of 1900 The Emergence of a New International Order Root's Army Reforms America and the Continued Extension of the White Man's Burden International Suspicion and Fear of Japan:1905-1908 Military Preparedness and the Emergence of the New Citizen Army: 1909-1920 Appendices Notes Bibliography Index