The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775–1903 by Robert Wooster.

But Jefferson could not easily improve the state militias. Jefferson established West Point in 1802, a Federalist idea, as a Republican tool to transform the army. When crafting a proposed Virginia state constitution in 1776, an idealistic Jefferson had boldly declared, "There shall be no standing army but in time of war" (46). [Extracted from the article]