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The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind: The Early Cold War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) [Hardcover]

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The U.S. military has historically believed itself to be the institution best suited to develop the character, spiritual values, and patriotism of American youth. Here, author Lori Bogle investigates how the armed forces assigned themselves this role and why they sought to create "ideologically sound Americans capable of defeating communism and assuring the victory of democracy at home and abroad."

Bogle shows that this view of America's civil religion predated tension with the Soviet Union. She traces this trend from the Progressive Era though the early Cold War, when the Truman and Eisenhower Aministrations formulated plans that promised to prepare the American public morally and spiritually for confrontation with the evils of communism.

Bogle's analysis suggests that cooperation among the military, evangelical right wing groups, and government was considered both necessary and normal. The Boy Scouts pushed a narrow vision of American democracy, and Joe McCarthy's chauvinism was less an aberration than a noxious manifestation of a widespread attitude. To combat communism, America and its armed forces embraced a narrow moral education that attacked everyone and everything not consonant with their view of the world order. Exposure of this alliance ultimately dissolved it.

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LORI BOGLE, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy.

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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: TAMU Press; 1 edition (October 12, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1585443786
  • ISBN-13: 978-1585443789
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The military, the far right, and the public in the early Cold War, December 4, 2006
This review is from: The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind: The Early Cold War (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) (Hardcover)
Lori Lyn Bogle's 2004 book, The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind, analyzes the relationship between the far right, the military, and national policymakers in the early Cold War. In the last years of the Eisenhower administration, the National Security Council encouraged officers to propagate anticommunist indoctrination to the civilian public. The book's culminating chapter reveals in evocative detail the resulting Cold War Seminars, which between 1958 and 1963 featured active officers speaking to audiences of civilians who ranged from enthusiastic supporters to those who attended under the duress of community pressure. Bogle argues that on occasions when the officers aligned themselves with the anti-administration rhetoric of the far right, Cold War Seminars strained the principle of civilian control of the military.

The preceding chapters trace the history that led to this state of affairs. Bogle explains the military's foray into public anticommunist education and character-building as emerging under the aegis of "civil-military religion," a force the author describes as a particularly potent form of religious nationalism whose adherents deemed the American armed forces to be God's instruments for nurturing the American way of life. Top officials in the Pentagon (especially Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Arthur W. Radford) embraced this vision, and facilitated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (who "establish[ed] himself as the high priest of the American civil-military religion"), sought to impart the military's robust but comformist ideal of citizenship to Americans out of uniform.

Bogle's style is smooth and appealing, and she displays a firm command of her wide-ranging sources. She never overreaches her conclusions or dismisses the deep concerns that motivated the officers who politicized themselves. The Pentagon's Battle for the American Mind is a highly profitable read for any student of the Cold War and anyone interested in the history of U.S. civil-military relations.
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