Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Universal Mobilization for War Purposes
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Universal Mobilization for War Purposes, Hearings ..., on H.J. Res. 128, H.R. 194, H.R. 4841 and H.R. 8111 ..., March 11, 13, 20, 1924
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
On War
Author: Carl von ClausewitzPublisher:
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A Call to Arms
Author: Maury KleinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608194094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents--and to do so, it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before the war began. Never in the nation's history did it have to create, outfit, transport, and supply huge armies, navies, and air forces on so many distant and disparate fronts. The Axis powers might have fielded better-trained soldiers, better weapons, and better tanks and aircraft, but they could not match American productivity. The United States buried its enemies in aircraft, ships, tanks, and guns; in this sense, American industry and American workers, won World War II. The scale of the effort was titanic, and the result historic. Not only did it determine the outcome of the war, but it transformed the American economy and society. Maury Klein's A Call to Arms is the definitive narrative history of this epic struggle--told by one of America's greatest historians of business and economics--and renders the transformation of America with a depth and vividness never available before.
Warhogs
Author: Stuart D. BrandesPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Puritans condemned war profiteering as a "Provoking Evil," George Washington feared that it would ruin the Revolution, and Franklin D. Roosevelt promised many times that he would never permit the rise of another crop of "war millionaires." Yet on every occasion that American soldiers and sailors served and sacrificed in the field and on the sea, other Americans cheerfully enhanced their personal wealth by exploiting every opportunity that wartime circumstances presented. In Warhogs, Stuart D. Brandes masterfully blends intellectual, economic, and military history into a fascinating discussion of a great moral question for generations of Americans: Can some individuals rightly profit during wartime while others sacrifice their lives to protect the nation? Drawing upon a wealth of manuscript sources, newspapers, contemporary periodicals, government reports, and other relevant literature, Brandes traces how each generation in financing its wars has endeavored to assemble resources equitably, to define the ethical questions of economic mobilization, and to manage economic sacrifice responsibly. He defines profiteering to include such topics as price gouging, quality degradation, trading with the enemy, plunder, and fraud, in order to examine the different guises of war profits and the degree to which they have existed from one era to the next. This far-reaching discussion moves beyond a linear narrative of the financial schemes that have shaped this nation's capacity to make war to an in-depth analysis of American thought and culture. Those scholars, students, and general readers interested in the interaction of legislative, economic, social, and technological events with the military establishment will find no other study that so thoroughly surveys the story of war profits in America.
Mobilizing for Modern War
Author: Paul A. C. KoistinenPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
In this volume, Koistinen examines war planning and mobilizing in an era of rapid industrialization and reveals how economic mobilization for defense and war is shaped at the national level by the interaction of political, economic, and military institutions and by increasingly powerful and expensive weaponry.
Taking the Profits Out of War
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Prices
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Taking the Profits Out of War, Hearings ..., on H.R. 3 and H.R. 5293 ..., January 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 1935
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1458
Book Description
Planning War, Pursuing Peace
Author: Paul A. C. KoistinenPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The third volume in a magisterial five-volume study of the political economy of American warfare.