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All-Volunteer Force
Fifty Years of Service
Häftad, 2023
425 kr
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The all-volunteer force (AVF), created in conjunction with the end of the draft in 1973, has been the most significant development in modern American military history. Since its inception, the influence of the AVF has reached far beyond the US armed forces, affecting the very character of American …
All-Volunteer Force
Fifty Years of Service
Inbunden, 2023
703 kr
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The all-volunteer force (AVF), created in conjunction with the end of the draft in 1973, has been the most significant development in modern American military history. Since its inception, the influence of the AVF has reached far beyond the US armed forces, affecting the very character of American …
Contested Valor
African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism
Inbunden, 2023
526 kr
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Contested Valor is a challenging examination of the use and status of black Marines in United States military service during the Cold War era. These pioneering men experienced contested military integration, as well as multiple forms of institutional and social opposition, which called their …
Collaborative Fight
Pursuing Jointness in the US Military
Av Paul R. Birch, Lina M. Svedin
Inbunden, 2024
531 kr
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The beautiful picture of brothers in arms vanquishing a tyrant. The power of a well-orchestrated army and navy winning historic battles. Overwhelming military might and ability through teamwork. This is how the US military services portray themselves to the public and to their own service members …
Creating the Modern Army
Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919-1939
Häftad, 2022
371 kr
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Winner: Army Historical Foundation Award for Excellence in U.S. Army History WritingThe modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior to World War I, officers in leadership positions were increasingly convinced that building a new army could not …
Defining the Mission
The Development of US Strategic Military Intelligence Up to the Cold War
Inbunden, 2025
647 kr
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The untold history of how strategic military intelligence organizations responded and adapted to the pressures and influence of the US military, government, and public to define themselves and their mission.From 1882 to 1947—the year the CIA was established—strategic military intelligence …
Building Bridges
Black GIs, Military Labor, and the Fight for Equality in World War II
Av Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr.
Inbunden, 2025
589 kr
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The previously overlooked story of how the labor of Black GIs helped win the war and advanced racial integration in the US armed forces.More than 80 percent of Black GIs in World War II served behind the front lines. At the beginning of the war, segregation policies maintained physical separation …
Marines' Fight for Survival
War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952
Av Rod Andrew
Inbunden, 2025
705 kr
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The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, the United States Marine Corps was close to becoming a hollow force. A parsimonious Truman …
Procuring Victory
The Army Quartermaster and the Economics of Expansion in Nineteenth-Century America
Av John Wendt
Inbunden, 2026
589 kr
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A groundbreaking study of U.S. Army quartermasters during the wars of the nineteenth century. Historian John Wendt shows how the federal dollars exchanged between military personnel and civilians underwrote American expansion and had profound effects on the course of American military, economic, …
Ladder and the Gate
Arab Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces and the Creation of Militarized Citizenship, 1948–1973
Av Rami Zeedan
Inbunden, 2027
814 kr
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Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Palestinian Arabs have served in its military. This little-known reality, brimming with contradiction, reflects the enduring complexities of the regional conflict and the politics of conditional citizenship in a militarized state.The Ladder …
