TY - BOOK AU - HAGAN Kenneth J AU - ROBERTS William R TI - Against all enemies: interpretations of American military history from colonial times to present SN - 0313252807 (pbk.) PY - 1986/// CY - Westport, Conn., USA PB - Greenwood Press KW - UNITED STATES KW - ARMY HISTORY KW - AMERICAN KW - MILITARY HISTORY N2 - The book presents eighteen historical stepping stones across the history of the United States army. The great American experiment in democracy and freedom has included importantly continuing experimentation with the role of substance of the military establishment and its proper role in the larger fabric of a dynamic free society. The book collects up the beginnings of the American army in prerevolutionary times and traces it through its development in the seminal revolutionary war and early nineteenth century periods ER -