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Author : Raymond Gish O'Connor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book War, Diplomacy, and History written by Raymond Gish O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135112594X
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Warfare in the USA 1784861 written by Samuel Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented compilation provides the fullest examination anywhere available of the crucial social-political and strategic and policy-level issues of American military history between the Revolution and the Civil War: civil-military relations and the military‘s place in American society and politics; westward expansion and the diverse peacetime missions assigned the military, especially constabulary missions and operations; force structure, mobilization and the formation of military strategy in support of national objectives; and military preparedness, administration, reform and professionalization. The introduction links all of these issues, pointing to the increasing scale, scope and organization and the growing dominance of national forces in American military institutions and operations during this important period.
Author : Gregory J. W. Urwin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295629
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Facing Fearful Odds written by Gregory J. W. Urwin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing Fearful Odds is based on interviews and correspondence gathered from more than seventy of Wake's American defenders and on research in archival and printed sources. The book covers the planning and political struggles that began Wake Island's transformation into a naval air station and submarine base, the U.S. Navy's eleventh-hour efforts to garrison and fortify Wake, and the various air, sea, and land attacks that resulted in the atoll's capture by the Imperial Japanese Navy. This study attempts to correct the myths that shroud what happened on the atoll. - from preface.
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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book A Historic Resources Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict: From military assistance to combat, 1959-1965 written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen G. Rabe
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477301798
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The Road to OPEC written by Stephen G. Rabe and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 10, 1960, Venezuela spearheaded the formation of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (other original members included Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait). However, in a world abundantly supplied with oil, the United States could and did ignore Venezuelan suggestions that OPEC and the consuming nations work together to control production and to increase prices. Then, in late 1973, OPEC sent shudders throughout the world economy, and an energy crisis struck with full force. Emboldened by the power of their oil cartel, Venezuelan leaders denounced the old economic relationship with the United States, nationalized U.S. oil and steel holdings, and fashioned a foreign economic policy that differed sharply from Washington's. The Road to OPEC is the story of the fiery debates among U.S. oil companies, the Department of State, and the Venezuelan government over oil policies—clashes that led Venezuela to establish OPEC and to nationalize U.S.-owned properties. In addition, this is the first study of twentieth-century Venezuelan-U.S. relations. Its focus on oil diplomacy is placed within the context of key U.S. policies toward Latin America and such programs as the Open Door, the Good Neighbor, and the Alliance for Progress. The author also provides insight into both the politics of the contemporary energy crisis and the growing split between raw-material producers and their industrial customers. The Road to OPEC is based on extensive archival research, as well as the author's successful use of the Freedom of Information Act to declassify files of such agencies as the National Security Council and the CIA.
Author : Todd Shallat
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292785887
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Structures in the Stream written by Todd Shallat and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Mississippi and other midwestern rivers inundated town after town during the summer of 1993, concerned and angry citizens questioned whether the very technologies and structures intended to "tame" the rivers did not, in fact, increase the severity of the floods. Much of the controversy swirled around the apparent culpability of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the builder of many of the flood control systems that failed. In this book, Todd Shallat examines the turbulent first century of the dam and canal building Corps and follows the agency's rise from European antecedents through the boom years of river development after the American Civil War. Combining extensive research with a lively style, Shallat tells the story of monumental construction and engineering fiascoes, public service and public corruption, and the rise of science and the army expert as agents of the state. More than an institutional history, Structures in the Stream offers significant insights into American society, which has alternately supported the public works projects that are a legacy of our French heritage and opposed them based on the democratic, individualist tradition inherited from Britain. It will be important reading for a wide audience in environmental, military, and scientific history, policy studies, and American cultural history.
Author : David J. Ulbrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Thomas Holcomb and the Advent of the Marine Corps Defense Battalion, 1936-1941 written by David J. Ulbrich and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Rearden
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160915680
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Council of War written by Steven L. Rearden and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2012 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established during World War ii to advise the President on the strategic direction of the Armed Forces of the United States, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) continued in existence after the war and, as military advisers and planners, have played a significant role in the development of national policy. Knowledge of JCS relations with the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council is essential to an understanding of the current work of the Chairman and the Joint Staff. A history of their activities, both in war and peacetime, also provides important insights into the military history of the United States. For these reasons, the Joint Chiefs of Staff directed that an official history of their activities be kept for the record. its value for instructional purposes, for the orientation of officers newly assigned to the JCS organization, and as a source of information for staff studies is self-apparent. Council of War: A History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1942–1991 follows in the tradition of volumes previously prepared by the Joint History Office dealing with JCS involvement in national policy, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Adopting a broader view than earlier volumes, it surveys the JCS role and contributions from the early days of World War ii through the end of the Cold War. Written from a combination of primary and secondary sources, it is a fresh work of scholarship, looking at the problems of this era and their military implications. The main prism is that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but in laying out the JCS perspective, it deals also with the wider impact of key decisions and the ensuing policies.
Author : David J Ulbrich
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612514103
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Preparing for Victory written by David J Ulbrich and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing for Victory explains how and why Commandant Thomas Holcomb successfully supervised the dramatic expansion of the Marine Corps from 18,000 officers and men in 1936 to 385,000 in 1943. Not only did Holcomb leave the Corps much larger, but he also helped establish it as the United States’ premier amphibious assault force and a major contributor to victory over Japan. Despite Holcomb’s successes, he has been ignored or given short shrift in most histories of the Marine Corps. No book-length study of his commandancy exists until now. Drawing on a wide range of printed and archival sources, my book contends that Holcomb expertly guided the Corps’ preparations for war during the last years of the Great Depression and then provided his “Leathernecks” with astute direction during the first harrowing twenty-five months of World War II. When measured with principles of organization theory and leadership studies, Holcomb’s abilities and achievements match those of such outstanding American military managers as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chester W. Nimitz, and George C. Marshall. Like these unassuming yet efficient officers, Holcomb shied away from the limelight and therefore never garnered the attention that “Chesty” Puller or “Howlin’ Mad” Smith have. This book fills a void and tells the story of one of the key leaders in World War II. More than any other marine, Holcomb molded his Corps into the modern force-in-readiness that would eventually help fight the Cold War and the Global War on Terror.
Author : John J. Sbrega
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317431790
Total Pages : 1078 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The War Against Japan, 1941-1945 written by John J. Sbrega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial accounts, military histories, East Asian histories, hisotoriographies. Part 2 covers diplomatic-political aspects of the war against Japan. Part 3 contains sources on the economic and legal aspects of the war against Japan. Part 4 presents sources on the military apsects of the war – embracing land, air and sea forces. Religious aspects of the war are covered in Part 5 and Part 6 deals with the social and cultural aspects, including substantial sections on the treatment of Japanese minorities in the USA, Hawaii, Canada and Peru.
Author : Stephen Irving Max Schwab
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700616705
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Guantánamo, USA written by Stephen Irving Max Schwab and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1999-11-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established as America's first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American War, Guantanamo is now more often thought of as our Devil's Island, the gulag of our times. This book takes readers beyond the orange-jumpsuited detainees of today's headlines to provide the first comprehensive history of Guantanamo from its origins to the present. Occupying 45 square miles of land and sea, Guantanamo has for more than a century symbolized the imperial impulse within U.S. foreign policy, and its occupation is decried by Cuba as a violation of international law--even though a treaty legally grants the U.S. a lease in perpetuity. Stephen Schwab now describes the base's role in American, Caribbean, and global history, explaining how it came to be, why it's still there, and how it continues to serve a variety of purposes. Schwab views the base's creation as part of a broad U.S. strategy of annexations, protectorates, and limited interventions devised to create a strong sphere of influence in the western Atlantic. He charts its history from this early belief that it would prevent European powers from staking imperial claims in the Caribbean and examines the crucial defensive role that Guantanamo played as a convoy hub for strategic goods during World War II. He then looks at clashes over Guantanamo during the Cold War, culminating in LBJ's decision to make the base independent by firing Cuban workers and building a desalinization plant. Schwab also fleshes out Guantanamo's ongoing roles as the U.S. Navy's lone forward base in the Caribbean, providing refueling for U.S. and allied ships, as a Coast Guard station engaged in search-and-rescue missions and counternarcotics operations, and as a U.S. facility for processing undocumented aliens. Even though the Castro government persistently protests America's presence—and refuses even to bank the rent that the U.S. dutifully pays—Guantanamo remains the only place where diplomatic exchanges between the two countries occur, and Schwab documents how the facility has served mutual interests as both a point of nationalistic frictions and a center for diplomatic compromise. By presenting Guantanamo's story within its broader historical framework, his book gives readers a greater appreciation of America's true stake in this controversial Caribbean outpost.
Author : David F. Trask
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294295
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (942 download)
Download or read book The War with Spain in 1898 written by David F. Trask and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Remember the Maine!” The war cry spread throughout the United States after the American battleship was blown up in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. Americans, already sympathetic with Cuba’s struggle for independence from Spain, demanded action. Brief and decisive, not too costly, the Spanish-American War made the United States a world power. David F. Trask’s War with Spain in 1898 is a cogent political and military history of that “splendid little war.” It describes the failure of diplomacy; the state of preparedness of both sides; the battles, including those of Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders; the enlargement of conflict to rout the Spanish from Puerto Rico and the Philippines; and the misconceptions surrounding the war.
Author : Steven L. Rearden
Publisher : Office of the Secretary, Historical Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense written by Steven L. Rearden and published by Office of the Secretary, Historical Office. This book was released on 1984 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce Vandervort
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134590911
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Indian Wars of Canada, Mexico and the United States, 1812-1900 written by Bruce Vandervort and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated, this unique and fascinating study sheds new light on familiar events. Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the 'new military history', this book interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatán during the nineteenth century.
Author : Alfred Goldberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense written by Alfred Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott L. Bills
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873385633
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Romance of History written by Scott L. Bills and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles and essays reflecting the varied professional interests of diplomatic historian Lawrence Kaplan. Drawn largely from Kaplan's former students - now scholars in their own right - there are also contributions from senior colleagues.
