Common Defense

For a Common Defense is a book written by three military experts named Allan R. Millett, Peter Maslowski, and William B. Feis. The book is about the structure of the military and the series of events that are involved with it. It also highlights the important events that took place during the many American wars in detail. Not only does it give readers an insight of the wars, it also explains all of the events that happened in between wars and how the military played a role in all of these events. The timeline of the book is rather extensive. It starts in 1607 when people first founded a settlement called Jamestown in what would some day become America. The book’s events take place from the first settlement all the way to 2012. The authors

Millett is the senior author of For the Common Defense. He worked on it for three editions during the last thirty or more years. The book started when Millett was a student in the American military history class taught by Harry L. Coles at Ohio State University (Millett et al., v). He also served three years in the Marine Corps and an infantry officer. After some time teaching at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Millett went on to be a teacher as an alumnus at the Ohio State University. He “inherited” the American Military class he once took from his former teacher. Given the fact that Millett was a formerly involved in American military and his experience as an American military professor at two universities makes him a very reliable source for the

The first is “rational military considerations alone have rarely shaped military policies and programs” (xiv). What this means is that a lot of military factors are not focused on the needs of the military, but on the American people. For instance, there have been several occasions in the past where the military need money but they are not granted the access to the funds that they need. In another instance, it has been shown that people regulate the military fearing that it will overpower the people. This can potentially inhibit the military from taking the necessary actions to protect its