The Rise and Decline of the American Militia System
- ISBN-10
- 094563692X
- ISBN-13
- 9780945636922
- Category
- History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- Pages
- 438
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Susquehanna University Press
- Author
- James B. Whisker
Description
The emergence of a true standing army, and the general failure of the militia in the War of 1812, led to decreased reliance upon it. After 1900, Elihu Root demanded that the militia law and training be revised, leading to a nationalization of the system and the replacement of traditional militias with the national guard system. By World War I, the dual enlistment clause made militiamen simultaneously members of the militias of their own states and members of a national militia that could be deployed as the federal government chose. Still, as recently as the 1980s the national government and the states clashed over the training of militias beyond the nation's boundary.
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