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Demystifying the American military : institutions, evolution, and challenges since 1789 / Paula G. Thornhill

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Demystifying the American military : institutions, evolution, and challenges since 1789 / Paula G. Thornhill
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Annapolis (Md.) : Naval Institute press
Date de copyright
  • C 2019
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XVI-246 p.) : ill., carte ; 21 cm
ISBN
  • 978-1-68247-073-2
  • 1-68247-073-3
EAN
  • 9781682470732 br.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.009 73
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 231-236. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Part I: The basics : U.S. military organizations and their people Military services, organizational integration, and civilian oversight Those who serve and the uniforms they wear Part II : The common defense and America's military America's military: creation and early challenges Fighting to preserve the Union: the Civil War and its aftermath The military services in transition, 1880-1917 The common defense moves over there: World War I and its aftermath Global expeditionary conflict, 1941-1945 The services' struggles for relevance in the atomic age, 1945-1949 Containment and the emergence of two militaries: the Cold War, 1950-1973 The military's revitalization and redemption: the Cold War, 1974-1991 Return to an expeditionary military, 1991-2001 The military the nation has, 2001-2017
Résumé ou extrait
  • La 4e de couv. indique : "The United States military has evolved from a tiny and distrusted institution at the margins of government into a central element of American power. Yet even after that growth, the military remains hard to comprehend because of its unique terminology, history, and culture. Paula Thornhill offers a primer for understanding America's military services before then tracing the military's evolution from the nation's founding through the present day. This examination offers a constant reminder that the armed services are the products of experience and accident, the branches the results of the country's own enormous history. Thus, today's high-tech, twenty-first-century military reflects patterns of adaptation and agglomeration and may only partially reveal the ideal military America would build if starting from a blank slate. Ultimately, this book seeks to open a window into the U.S. military in such a way that the reader can see it, for good or ill, for what it fundamentally is--a reflection of the nation, its priorities, and its people."
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