This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization with examinations of the events of America's major armed conflicts, offering useful case studies for students of military history and spending policy, policymakers, military comptrollers, and officers in training.

Provides a comprehensive analysis of military finance and policy throughout US history, covering in this volume the period from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War Analyzes military spending from multiple viewpoints, drawing from policy studies, strategic studies, history, and military studies Offers a sweeping and practical perspective from a scholar with extensive experience in security, finance, and academia

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Thomas M. Meagher is Adjunct Professor at Armstrong State University, USA. He spent twenty-five years in the national security field, including time as an active duty Army officer, ten years in financial analysis and investor relations positions in the defense industry, and another decade as an award-winning Wall Street equity research analyst following publicly traded defense and government services contractors. He is currently researching and writing a complementary two part volume on resourcing European and Asian Military Interventions from the War of the Spanish Succession to World War Two.

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Defining US Strategic Resourcing Culture .- Washington, Morris, and Resourcing the American Revolution .- Jefferson, Madison, Gallatin, and Resourcing the War of 1812 .- Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and Resourcing the Mexican-American War .- Hamiltonian Federalism and Union Resourcing of the Civil War .- Jeffersonian Republicanism and Confederate Resourcing of the Civil War.