The fourth, Jacksonian, tradition represented a populist culture of “honor, independence, courage, and military pride,” that later translated into “unwavering popular support for the bloody and dangerous Cold War.”[8] Today, the American public’s support for the pursuit of “total victory” (55.8 percent of those polled) and the use of quick and massive force (58.5 percent), as opposed to gradual escalation, evokes this Jacksonian tradition (CM1T 79). So too does the overwhelming public support for increasing or maintaining spending levels on military pay, operations and training, construction,
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