"This volume was undertaken as the first American number of the Revue internationale d'histoire militaire"--Pref.

The origin and framing of the American Constitution / Richard B. Morris -- The Constitution and national security : the intent of the framers / Richard H. Kohn -- The Constitution and the citizen-soldier / Allan R. Millett -- Federal military intervention in domestic disorders / Jerry M. Cooper -- The Black serviceman and the Constitution / Bernard C. Nalty -- Ulysses Grant I, emperor of America? : some civil-military continuities and strains of the Civil War and Reconstruction / Harold M. Hyman -- George C. Marshall on civil-military relationships in the United States / Forrest C. Pogue -- The Truman-MacArthur conflict : dilemmas of civil-military relations in the nuclear age / Roy K. Flint -- Congress and national defense, 1945-1950 / Steven L. Rearden.