Author: Publisher:
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Category : Citizens' Military Training Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Twelve Years of the CMTC
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizens' Military Training Camps
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Twelve Years of the CMTC
Author: Military Training Camps Association (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military training camps
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Citizen Soldiers
Author: John Garry CliffordPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813154448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The Citizen Soldiers explores the military reform movement that took its name from the famous Business Men's Military Training Camps at Plattsburg, New York. It also illuminates the story of two exceptional men: General Leonard Wood, the rambunctious and controversial former Rough Rider who galvanized the Plattsburg Idea with his magnetic personality; and Grenville Clark, a young Wall Street lawyer. The Plattsburg camps strove to advertise the lack of military preparation in the United States and stressed the military obligation every man owed to his country. Publicized by individuals who voluntarily underwent military training, the preparedness movement rapidly took shape in the years prior to America's entry into the First World War. Far from being war hawks, the Plattsburg men emphasized the need for a "citizen army" rather than a large professional establishment. Although they failed in their major objective—universal military training—their vision of a citizen army was largely realized in the National Defense Act of 1920, and their efforts helped to establish selective service as the United States' preferred recruitment method in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Featuring a new preface by the author, this new edition of a seminal study will hit shelves just in time for the World War I Centennial.
Covering R.O.T.C. advanced course (infantry); blue course, C.M.T.C., and additional matter
Author: James Alfred MossPolitical pamphlets
Author: Widener Library Shelflist: American history
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
American History
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Bulletin [of The] Recruiting Publicity Bureau, U.S. Army
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Author: Bodies for Battle
Author: Garrett GatzemeyerPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700632581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Physical training in the US Army has a surprisingly short history. Bodies for Battle by Garrett Gatzemeyer is the first in-depth analysis of the US Army’s particular set of practices and values, known as its physical culture, that emerged in the late nineteenth century in response to tactical challenges and widespread anxieties over diminishing masculinity. The US Army’s physical culture assumed a unity of mind and body; learning a physical act was not just physical but also mental and social. Physical training and exercise could therefore develop the whole individual, even societies. Bodies for Battle is a study of how the US Army developed modern, scientific training methods in response to concerns about entering a competitive imperial world where embodied nations battled for survival in a Social Darwinist framework. This book connects social and cultural worries about American masculinity and manliness with military developments (strategic, tactical, technological) in the early twentieth century, and it links trends in the United States and the US Army with larger trans-Atlantic trends. Bodies for Battle presents new perspectives on US civil-military relations, army officers’ unease with citizen armies, and the implications of compulsory military service. Gatzemeyer offers a deeply informed historical understanding of physical training practices in the US Army, the reasons why soldiers exercise the way they do, and the influence of physical culture’s evolution on present-day reform efforts. Between the 1880s and the 1950s, the Army’s set of practices and values matured through interactions between combat experience, developments in the field of physical education, institutional outsiders, application beyond the military, and popular culture. A persistent tension between discipline and group averages on one hand and maximizing the individual warrior’s abilities on the other manifested early and continues to this day. Bodies for Battle also builds on earlier studies on sport in the US military by highlighting historical divergences between athletics and disciplinary and combat readiness impulses. Additionally, Bodies for Battle analyzes applications of the Army’s physical culture to wider society in an effort to “prehabilitate” citizens for service.