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Author: Demetrios Caraley Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 376
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This is a study of the intense political conflict that took place between 1943 and 1947 over the unification of the military services.
Author: Demetrios Caraley Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 376
Book Description
This is a study of the intense political conflict that took place between 1943 and 1947 over the unification of the military services.
Author: Paolo Enrico Coletta Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874131260 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 380
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This book provides a historical background to the problems met during the early days of defense unification of the three U.S. military services: the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force. The author analyzes the problem of unification during both peacetime and wartime, showing how the Korean War served to point up the capabilities and limitations of the three services.
Author: Gordon W. Keiser Publisher: ISBN: 9780898758047 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 188
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This National Defense University Military History examines the role of the U. S. Marine Corps in the defense unification controversy of 1944-1947. World War II demanded the coordinated training, equipping, transporting, and employing of huge forces and soon exposed the organizational flaws of the prewar military establishment. Sentiment for unifying the U. S. military effort predated World War II, but the war provided the impetus for a major reorganization. Long before the end of the war, there was a growing conviction in the War Department and Congress to establish a system to coordinate and unify the activities of the U. S. Armed Forces. The National Security Act established a more unified defense entity in 1947, but the Marine Corps - deftly practicing the "politics of survival" - emerged with its organizational identity and integrity essentially intact. The author, Colonel Gordon Keiser, USMC, relates the history of how the Corps managed to survive amidst the political maneuvering of more than an account of one Services struggle to endure. It contains interesting insights into the origins of the modern Department of Defense and the current defense policymaking process. Although todays circumstances are vastly changed, the Nation remains concerned about issues such as defense organization, the proper role of military lobbying, and the relationship of the Services to one another and to the Congress.
Author: Gordon W. Keiser Publisher: ISBN: Category : United States Languages : en Pages : 172
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An examination of the controversy surrounding defense organization in the period 1944-1947 is fitting in light of current events. Having passed through public disenchantment attendant to the Vietnam war (by no means our country's first unpopular fight), the US national security establishment is being promised rebirth. With fresh designs for defense organization in the offing, it is worthwhile to study the heated policy conflict that ultimately resulted in a structure affecting virtually every aspect of civil-military relations in the United States. The Marine Corps' part in the conflict is a little-known chapter in American civil-military relations or, more precisely, the field of politico-military affirs. The purpose of this study is to analyze events leading to the enactment of the National Security Act, focusing on the Marine Corps as perhaps the most vocal and bitter military opponent of the concept of unification expressed by the War Deparment. The main themes of this study are: centralization versus dectralization in the defense structure, the role of military lobbying, and the relationship between the Marine Corps on one hand, and Congress and its constituency on the other.
Author: Andrew Bickford Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804777160 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 289
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Military officers are often the first to be considered politically dangerous when a state loses its authority. Overnight, actions once considered courageous are deemed criminal, and men once praised as heroes are redefined as villains. In Fallen Elites, Andrew Bickford examines how states make soldiers and what happens to fallen military elites when they no longer fit into the political spectrum. Gaining unprecedented entry into the lives of former East German officers in unified Germany, Bickford relates how these men and their families have come to terms with the shock of unification, capitalism, and citizenship since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Often caricatured as unrepentant, hard-line communists, former officers recount how they have struggled with their identities and much-diminished roles. Their disillusionment speaks to global questions about the contentious relationship between the military, citizenship, masculinity, and state formation today. Casting a critical eye on Western triumphalism, they provide a new perspective on our own deep-seated assumptions about "soldier making," both at home and abroad.
Author: Amitai Etzioni Publisher: New York, Holt ISBN: Category : Regionalism (International organization). Languages : en Pages : 376
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A comparison trying to determine the right conditions of political unification and the political leadership qualities of the integrating government. Case studies. Two unions failed - uar (Egypt and Syrian Arab Republic) and federation of West indies (Caribbean). Two successful unions - nordic associational web (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and EC countries. International relations.
Author: Mattia Roveri Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030571610 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 395
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This book sheds new light on the role of the military in Italian society and culture during war and peacetime by bringing together a whole host of contributors across the interdisciplinary spectrum of Italian Studies. Divided into five thematic units, this volume examines the continuous and multifaceted impact of the military on modern and contemporary Italy. The Italian context offers a particularly fertile ground for studying the cultural impact of the military because the institution was used not only for defensive/offensive purposes, but also to unify the country and to spread ideas of socio-cultural and technological development across its diverse population.
Author: Gabriele Esposito Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472819519 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 50
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In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' – not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples. Two decades later, it was a nation united under a single king and government, thanks largely to the efforts of the Kings of Sardinia and Piedmont, and the revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. This book, the first of a two-part series on the armies that fought in the Italian Wars of Unification, examines the Piedmontese and Neapolitan armies that fought in the north and south of the peninsula. Illustrated with prints, early photos and detailed commissioned artwork, this book explores the history, organization, and appearance of the armies that fought to unite the Italian peninsula under one flag.
Author: John Duffield Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804763186 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 404
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What does German unification imply for international politics? Many commentators have speculated about how a united Germany will use its new found power and influence on the world stage, and for good reason. Because of its size, central location, and strong economy, Germany will inevitably exert considerable influence over developments in Europe, if not beyond. Drawing on interviews and other primary source materials, this comprehensive study examines in detail each of the central issues of Germany’s security policy since 1990: its promotion of political and economic reform in the former Soviet bloc, its efforts to maintain and strengthen European security institutions, the transformation of Germany’s armed forces, and its responses to international crises and conflicts, including the debate over German participation in foreign military actions. Rejecting claims that German policy is becoming nationalized and militarized, the author argues that Germany’s actions have in fact been characterized by considerable restraint and continuity with the past, notwithstanding its much greater potential freedom of action after the Cold War. In order to make sense of this record, the book presents a general framework of analysis that promises to be useful for explaining the security policies of a variety of states. It then shows how a variety of influences both in Germany’s external environment and within Germany itself have importantly shaped German security policy since unification. In sharp contrast to the realist approaches that have dominated security studies, the book highlights the roles played by international institutions and Germany’s distinct postwar political culture in molding German state behavior. In a final chapter, the author discusses the likely future course of German security policy and the implications of his analysis for the theoretical study of national security policy.
Author: Demetrios Caraley
Author: Demetrios Caraley
Author: Demetrios Caraley
Author: Paolo Enrico Coletta
Author: Gordon W. Keiser
Author: Gordon W. Keiser
Author: Andrew Bickford
Author: Amitai Etzioni
Author: Mattia Roveri
Author: Gabriele Esposito
Author: John Duffield