United States Military History 1865 to the Present Day (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Charlston, Jeffery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Explaining America's rise as a global military power challenges the methodologies of military history

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351143707
• Artikelnr.: 50921523

Autorenporträt

Jeffery Charlston, US Army Center of Military History, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I Issues: The 'new' American military history: a map of the territory
explored and unexplored
Peter Karsten; Part II Military Operations: Wings and wheels: the 1st Aero Squadron
truck transport
and the punitive expedition of 1916
Roger Miller; A friend indeed? From Tobruk to El Alamein: the American contribution to victory in the desert
Andrew Buchanan; The quiet war: combat operations along the Korean demilitarized zone
1966-69
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes; Disaster at desert one: catalyst for change
John E. Valliere; Military response to terrorism
Mark E. Kosnick. Part III Policy
Doctrine
and Decision Making: First lessons in modern war: Arthur Wagner
the 1898 Santiago campaign
and US army lesson-learning
T.R. Brereton; Evolution of the US navy's strategic assessments in the Pacific
1919-31
William Braisted; George C. Marshall and the 1940 Louisiana maneuvers
Mary Kathryn Barbier; The all-volunteer army: fifteen years later
Curtis L Gilroy
Robert L. Phillips and John D. Blair; Civilian ideas and military innovation: manoeuver warfare and organisational change in the US army
Richard Lock-Pullan; Cutting
running
or otherwise? The US decision to withdraw from Somalia
Douglas E. Delaney. Part IV Science
Technology
and Industry: Fever and reform; The typhoid epidemic in the Spanish-American War
Vincent J. Cirillo; Science can never demobilize': the US navy and petroleum geology
1898-1924
Peter A. Shulman; The rise and fall of brilliant pebbles
Donald R Baucom. Part V Cultural and Social Aspects: Licit amusements of enlisted men in the post-Civil War army
William A. Dobak; Prostitution and drugs: the United States army on the Mexican-American border
1916-17
James Sandos; 'I like the cut of your jib': cultures of accommodation between the US navy and citizens of San Diego
CA
1900-1951
Abraham J. Shragge; Social impact of military growth in St. Mary's County
MD
1940-1995
Louis Hick