The Resource Demystifying the American Military : Institutions, Evolution, and Challenges since 1789, Paula G. Thornhill
Demystifying the American Military : Institutions, Evolution, and Challenges since 1789, Paula G. Thornhill
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- Summary
- 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. -- Back cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 246 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781682470732
- Label
- Demystifying the American Military : Institutions, Evolution, and Challenges since 1789
- Title
- Demystifying the American Military
- Title remainder
- Institutions, Evolution, and Challenges since 1789
- Statement of responsibility
- Paula G. Thornhill
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. -- Back cover
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Thornhill, Paula G
- Dewey number
- 355.00973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- UA23
- LC item number
- .T475 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Armed Forces
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Label
- Demystifying the American Military : Institutions, Evolution, and Challenges since 1789, Paula G. Thornhill
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index
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- volume
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- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9781682470732
- Lccn
- 2018054259
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other control number
- 40029305878
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1047663864
- Label
- Demystifying the American Military : Institutions, Evolution, and Challenges since 1789, Paula G. Thornhill
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 246 pages
- Isbn
- 9781682470732
- Lccn
- 2018054259
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40029305878
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1047663864
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