History Unplugged Podcast · History Unplugged
Why America's Military Never Became a Threat to Democracy
·52 min·5 clips
Washington rejecting kingship was like recovering a fumble and handing it back instead of scoring the touchdown.
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A clear look at why the United States stayed a civil-military outlier.
The episode takes up a familiar worry: a standing army can crowd out civilian control, and the United States somehow avoided that outcome. Washington gets due credit, but the stronger material is the structural one, with geography, a relatively calm foreign-security setting, and…
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