Understanding The U S Military

Author : Katherine Carroll,William B. Hickman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000630541

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Understanding the U.S. Military by Katherine Carroll,William B. Hickman Pdf

This book offers an accessible introduction to the U.S. military as an institution and provides insights into the military’s structure and norms. Designed for undergraduate students, the book offers an interdisciplinary overview of America’s armed forces through three critical lenses. First, it introduces the military’s constitutional and historical context. Second, it presents concise factual information chosen for its relevance to the military’s structures, procedures, norms, and varied activities. Finally, it intersperses these facts with debates, theories, and questions to spark student interest, class discussion, and further research. The text is written for the beginner but covers complex topics such as force structure and the defense budget. With contributions informed by both scholarly approaches and long military careers, the book will prepare students for further studies in international relations, civil-military relations, or U.S. foreign policy. It also encourages critical thinking, elucidating an institution that undergraduates and other civilians too often perceive as both baffling and above reproach. This book will be of much interest to students of the U.S. military, civil-military relations, U.S. politics, and public policy.

Author : Katherine Blue Carroll,William B. Hickman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : United States
ISBN : 036772457X

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Understanding the US Military by Katherine Blue Carroll,William B. Hickman Pdf

This book offers an accessible introduction to the U.S. military as an institution and provides insights into the military's structure and norms. Designed for undergraduate students, the book offers an interdisciplinary overview of America's armed forces through three critical lenses. First, it introduces the military's constitutional and historical context. Second, it presents concise factual information chosen for its relevance to the military's structures, procedures, norms, and varied activities. Finally, it intersperses these facts with debates, theories, and questions to spark student interest, class discussion, and further research. The text is written for the beginner but covers complex topics such as force structure and the defense budget. With contributions informed by both scholarly approaches and long military careers, the book will prepare students for further studies in international relations, civil-military relations, or U.S. foreign policy. It also encourages critical thinking, elucidating an institution that undergraduates and other civilians too often perceive as both baffling and above reproach. This book will be of much interest to students of the U.S. military, civil-military relations, U.S. politics, and public policy.

Author : D. Reveron,Judith Hicks Stiehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230613782

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Inside Defense by D. Reveron,Judith Hicks Stiehm Pdf

Inside Defense brings together scholars, policy experts and practitioners to provide a comprehensive view of the U.S. military to understand the military's role in international politics and its relationship with domestic institutions and society.

Author : Michael Bellesiles
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595587138

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A People's History of the U.S. Military by Michael Bellesiles Pdf

In A People's History of the U.S. Military, historian Michael A. Bellesiles draws from three centuries of soldiers' personal encounters with combat—through fascinating excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as audio recordings, film, and blogs—to capture the essence of the American military experience firsthand, from the American Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Military service can shatter and give meaning to lives; it is rarely a neutral encounter, and has contributed to a rich outpouring of personal testimony from the men and women who have literally placed their lives on the line. The often dramatic and always richly textured first-person accounts collected in this book cover a wide range of perspectives, from ardent patriots to disillusioned cynics; barely literate farm boys to urbane college graduates; scions of founding families to recent immigrants, enthusiasts, and dissenters; women disguising themselves as men in order to serve their country to African Americans fighting for their freedom through military service. A work of great relevance and immediacy—as the nation grapples with the return of thousands of men and women from active military duty—A People's History of the U.S. Military will become a major new touchstone for our understanding of American military service.

Author : Jack Smith
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798846342514

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Understanding the U.S. by Jack Smith Pdf

This book offers an accessible introduction to the U.S. military as an institution and provides insights into the military's structure and norms. Designed for undergraduate students, the book offers an interdisciplinary overview of America's armed forces through three critical lenses. First, it introduces the military's constitutional and historical context. Second, it presents concise factual information chosen for its relevance to the military's structures, procedures, norms, and varied activities. Finally, it intersperses these facts with debates, theories, and questions to spark student interest, class discussion, and further research. The text is written for the beginner but covers complex topics such as force structure and the defense budget. With contributions informed by both scholarly approaches and long military careers, the bookwill prepare students for further studies in international relations, civil-military relations, or U.S. foreign policy. It also encourages critical thinking, elucidating an institution that undergraduates and other civilians too often perceive as both baffling and above reproach. This book will be of much interest to students of the U.S. military, civil-military relations, U.S. politics, and public policy.

Author : Douglas Walter Bristol,Heather Marie Stur
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421422473

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Integrating the US Military by Douglas Walter Bristol,Heather Marie Stur Pdf

"Integrating the US Military is an edited collection that examines the US Army's role and place in progressive social change through the lens of the military experience of African Americans, women, and gays since World War II. By making this long overdue comparison, the editors argue this anthology demonstrates how the challenges launched against the racial, gender, and sexual status quo in the years after World War II transformed overarching ideas about power, citizenship, and America's role in the world. This anthology's major contribution is synthesizing recent scholarly work on the history of minorities and women in the US military. It does so by examining connections between GIs and civilian society in the context of ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality. Given the militarization of American society since World War II, revealing the links between these legally marginalized groups within the Armed Services is historically significant in its own right. At the same time, this comparison also sheds new light on a broad range of issues that affected civilian society, such as affirmative action, integration, marriage laws, and sexual harassment. Integrating the US Military is a book designed for college students, military professionals, policy makers, and general readers. Allowing readers to view the history of several civil rights movements within the Armed Forces will prompt them to rethink the way they understand the history of social movements. It will also help them to better understand the relationship between the military and American society. Finally, readers will gain a historical perspective on recent debates about the rights of gays in the military and the implications of deploying women in combat."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Allan Douglas English
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 077352715X

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Understanding Military Culture by Allan Douglas English Pdf

Examines military culture from a theoretical and a practical point of view Considers conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq that have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in analyzing the ability of military organizations to perform certain tasks Culture has been described as the bedrock of military effectiveness because it influences everything an armed service does. The recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have highlighted the importance of culture as a concept in analyzing the ability of military organizations to perform certain tasks. In fact, a military's culture may determine its preferred way of fighting and dealing with other challenges, like incorporating new technologies, more than its doctrine or organizational structure. of view. It focuses on the Canadian and American military cultures, and it provides the first detailed examination of the culture of the Canadian Forces. It also compares their culture to that of the US armed forces. The book concludes that while the culture of the Canadian Forces has been Americanized to a certain extent, the culture of the US armed forces, due to changes in their personnel and roles, has experienced a certain degree of Canadianization at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries.

Author : D. Reveron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349602744

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Inside Defense by D. Reveron Pdf

Author : Harald Hoiback
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136760310

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Understanding Military Doctrine by Harald Hoiback Pdf

This book puts military doctrine into a wider perspective, drawing on military history, philosophy, and political science. Military doctrines are institutional beliefs about what works in war; given the trauma of 9/11 and the ensuing 'War on Terror', serious divergences over what the message of the 'new' military doctrine ought to be were expected around the world. However, such questions are often drowned in ferocious meta-doctrinal disagreements. What is a doctrine, after all? This book provides a theoretical understanding of such questions. Divided into three parts, the author investigates the historical roots of military doctrine and explores its growth and expansion until the present day, and goes on to analyse the main characteristics of a military doctrine. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the book concludes that doctrine can be utilized in three key ways: as a tool of command, as a tool of change, and as a tool of education. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, civil-military relations, strategic studies, and war studies, as well as to students in professional military education.

Author : Joseph T. Glatthaar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190692810

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The American Military by Joseph T. Glatthaar Pdf

The American Military: A Concise History narrates the American military experience. It focuses on four recurring themes-- citizen soldiers vs. the standing armed forces; military professionalism; mechanization and technology; and the limits of power--and illuminates the role of the American military in its past and how it is shaping current and future national security issues.

Author : Matt Kennard
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844678808

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Irregular Army by Matt Kennard Pdf

Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars—now the longest wars in American history—the US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennard’s explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, criminals of all stripes, the overweight, and the mentally ill. Based on several years of reporting, Irregular Army includes extensive interviews with extremist veterans and leaders of far-right hate groups—who spoke openly of their eagerness to have their followers acquire military training for a coming domestic race war. As a report commissioned by the Department of Defense itself put it, “Effectively, the military has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy pertaining to extremism.” Irregular Army connects some of the War on Terror’s worst crimes to this opening-up of the US military. With millions of veterans now back in the US and domestic extremism on the rise, Kennard’s book is a stark warning about potential dangers facing Americans—from their own soldiers.

Author : James R. Arnold,Roberta Wiener
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1820 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610699341

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Understanding U.S. Military Conflicts through Primary Sources [4 volumes] by James R. Arnold,Roberta Wiener Pdf

An easily accessible resource that showcases the links between using documented primary sources and gaining a more nuanced understanding of military history. Primary source analysis is a valuable tool that teaches students how historians utilize documents and interpret evidence from the past. This four-volume reference traces key decisions in U.S. military history—from the Revolutionary War through the 21st-century conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq—by examining documents relating to military strategy and national policy judgments by U.S. military and political leaders. A comprehensive introductory essay provides readers with the context necessary to understand the relationship between diplomatic documents, military correspondence, and other documentation related to events that shaped warfare, diplomacy, and military strategy. Once the stage is set, the work covers 14 conflicts that are significant to U.S. history. Treatment of each of the conflicts begins with a historical overview followed by a chronology and approximately 30 primary source documents presented in chronological order. Each document is accompanied by a description and annotations and by an analysis that highlights its importance to the event or topic under discussion. Designed for secondary school and college students, the work will be exceptionally valuable to teachers who will appreciate the ready-made lessons that fit directly into core curriculum standards.

Author : Morten G. Ender,Ryan Kelty,David E. Rohall,Michael D. Matthews
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666928747

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Inclusion in the American Military by Morten G. Ender,Ryan Kelty,David E. Rohall,Michael D. Matthews Pdf

The US military is one of the largest employers in the country and is a relative microcosm of American society, bringing in people from diverse backgrounds and history to defend the nation from all enemies. Military and civilian leaders address the same challenges as those found in the civilian world, including diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging. The US military has both led and followed the nation in establishing policies of diversity and inclusion. In this second edition, the editors and contributors provide a revised, updated, and expanded overview of the ways in which diversity and inclusion are dispatched in the US military by providing information and knowledge about celebrated and contested social characteristics including race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexuality and three new groups comprising the military: the (dis)abled, civilians, and immigrants. Astute subject matter experts contribute contemporary, must have, go to chapters into a fresh, compelling, and insightful volume on the roles that each of these groups occupy in the US armed services as well as the laws, rules, and regulations regarding their participation. This new edition also provides eleven Lived Experiences that enliven and humanize each chapter and will assuredly inspire readers.

Author : Eyal Ben-Ari,Helena Carreiras,Celso Castro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000483208

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Understanding the Impact of Social Research on the Military by Eyal Ben-Ari,Helena Carreiras,Celso Castro Pdf

This book seeks to chart and evaluate the impact of social research on the military itself. By "impact", the authors in this volume simply mean that which has a marked effect or influence on changing military policy, practices, knowledge, skills, behaviour, or living conditions. The book comprises a series of reflective contributions from scholars who have conducted research on the military as external scholars with no formal ties to the armed forces, as "native" researchers formally linked to them, as well as various kinds of contracted social scientists enabled by the military to carry out their investigations. The authors were asked to make the question of the impact of social scientific research on the armed forces an object of study in itself and to situate their reflections in terms of wider analytical questions. As a result, the chapters can be divided, broadly speaking, into two types of orientation: some are centered on theoretical and analytical issues, while others focus on the researchers’ lived experiences. This book will be of interest to students of military studies, sociology, organisational studies, psychology and political science.

Author : D. Reveron,Judith Hicks Stiehm
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137343001

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Inside Defense by D. Reveron,Judith Hicks Stiehm Pdf

Inside Defense brings together scholars, policy experts and practitioners to provide a comprehensive view of the U.S. military to understand the military's role in international politics and its relationship with domestic institutions and society.