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Author : West Point Association of Graduates (Organization).
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Assembly written by West Point Association of Graduates (Organization). and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Scott Logel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807163732
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Designing Gotham written by Jon Scott Logel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1817 and 1898, New York City evolved from a vital Atlantic port of trade to the center of American commerce and culture. With this rapid commercial growth and cultural development, New York came to epitomize a nineteenth-century metropolis. Although this important urban transformation is well documented, the critical role of select Union soldiers turned New York engineers has, until now, remained largely unexplored. In Designing Gotham, Jon Scott Logel examines the fascinating careers of George S. Greene, Egbert L. Viele, John Newton, Henry Warner Slocum, and Fitz John Porter, all of whom studied engineering at West Point, served in the United States Army during the Civil War, and later advanced their civilian careers and status through the creation of Victorian New York. These influential cadets trained at West Point in the nation’s first engineering school, a program designed by Sylvanus Thayer and Dennis Hart Mahan that would shape civil engineering in New York and beyond. After the war, these industrious professionals leveraged their education and military experience to wield significant influence during New York’s social, economic, and political transformation. Logel examines how each engineer’s Civil War service shaped his contributions to postwar activities in the city, including the construction of the Croton Aqueduct, the creation of Central Park, and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Logel also delves into the administration of New York’s municipal departments, in which Military Academy alumni interacted with New York elites, politicians, and civilian-trained engineers. Examining the West Pointers’ experiences—as cadets, military officers during the war, and New Yorkers—Logel assesses how these men impacted the growing metropolis, the rise of professionalization, and the advent of Progressivism at the end of the century.
Author : William P. Leeman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833835
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Long Road to Annapolis written by William P. Leeman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding. --from publisher description
Author : David Lipsky
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547523750
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Absolutely American written by David Lipsky and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A “fascinating, funny and tremendously well written” chronicle of daily life at the US Military Academy (Time). In 1998, West Point made an unprecedented offer to Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky: Stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever you wish, talk to whomever you want, to discover why some of America’s most promising young people sacrifice so much to become cadets. Lipsky followed one cadet class into mess halls, barracks, classrooms, bars, and training exercises, from arrival through graduation. By telling their stories, he also examines the Academy as a reflection of our society: Are its principles of equality, patriotism, and honor quaint anachronisms or is it still, as Theodore Roosevelt called it, the most “absolutely American” institution? During an eventful four years in West Point’s history, Lipsky witnesses the arrival of TVs and phones in dorm rooms, the end of hazing, and innumerable other shifts in policy and practice. He uncovers previously unreported scandals and poignantly evokes the aftermath of September 11, when cadets must prepare to become officers in wartime. Lipsky also meets some extraordinary people: a former Eagle Scout who struggles with every facet of the program, from classwork to marching; a foul-mouthed party animal who hates the military and came to West Point to play football; a farm-raised kid who seems to be the perfect soldier, despite his affection for the early work of Georgia O’Keeffe; and an exquisitely turned-out female cadet who aspires to “a career in hair and nails” after the Army. The result is, in the words of David Brooks in the New York Times Book Review, “a superb description of modern military culture, and one of the most gripping accounts of university life I have read. . . . How teenagers get turned into leaders is not a simple story, but it is wonderfully told in this book.”
Author : Charles F.G. Kuyk, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680949
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book West Point Graduates and the United States Air Force written by Charles F.G. Kuyk, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Point graduates played a central role in developing U.S. military air and space power from the earliest days of mechanized flight through the establishment of the U.S. Air Force in 1947, and continuing through the Persian Gulf War. These graduates served at a time when the world's greatest wave of technological advancement occurred: in aviation, nuclear weapons, rocketry, ICBMs, computers, satellite systems in inner space and man in outer space. This history traces the advancement of weapons and space technology that became the hallmark of the U.S. Air Force, and the pivotal role that West Point graduates played in integrating them into a wide variety of Air Force systems and programs. Many became aircraft commanders, test pilots, astronauts and, later in their careers, general officers who helped shape and implement technologies still in use today.
Author : William B. Skelton
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Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An American Profession of Arms written by William B. Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the formation of a regular army in 1784, a popular distruct of military power and the generally unsettled nature of national administration kept the army in a continual state of fluctuation, both in terms of organisation and size. Few officers were making a long-term commitment to military service. But by 1860, a professional army career was becoming a way of life. In that year, 41.5 percent of officers had served 30 years, compared to only 2.6 percent in 1797.
Author : Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674041387
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Making Citizen-Soldiers written by Michael S. Neiberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Reserve Officers Training Corps program as a distinctively American expression of the social, cultural, and political meanings of military service. Since 1950, ROTC has produced nearly two out of three American active duty officers, yet there has been no comprehensive scholarly look at civilian officer education programs in nearly forty years. While most modern military systems educate and train junior officers at insular academies like West Point, only the United States has relied heavily on the active cooperation of its civilian colleges. Michael Neiberg argues that the creation of officer education programs on civilian campuses emanates from a traditional American belief (which he traces to the colonial period) in the active participation of civilians in military affairs. Although this ideology changed shape through the twentieth century, it never disappeared. During the Cold War military buildup, ROTC came to fill two roles: it provided the military with large numbers of well-educated officers, and it provided the nation with a military comprised of citizen-soldiers. Even during the Vietnam era, officers, university administrators, and most students understood ROTC's dual role. The Vietnam War thus led to reform, not abandonment, of ROTC. Mining diverse sources, including military and university archives, Making Citizen-Soldiers provides an in-depth look at an important, but often overlooked, connection between the civilian and military spheres.
Author : T. Kane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113751129X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Bleeding Talent written by T. Kane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping the debate on how to save the military from itself. The first part recognizes what the military has done well in attracting and developing leadership talent. The book then examines the causes and consequences of the modern military's stifling personnel system and offers solutions for attracting and retaining top talent.
Author : Robert G. Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134897510
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Field Research written by Robert G. Burgess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Parameters written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barney Glaser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351501186
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Organizational Careers written by Barney Glaser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although sociologists have written extensively on the broad subject of occupational careers, generally they have referred only incidentally to organizational careers within work organizations. In this pioneering sourcebook, now considered a classic, Glaser gathered from the literature of occupational sociology those studies that bear most directly on organizational careers. His objective was to provide the first survey of the substantial body of data on the subject and to place this data in a framework that illustrates its significance for the development of theory. In an extensive introduction, the editor explains the several purposes of the book and describes in detail the process of comparative analysis through which sociological theory on organizational careers can be generated. Organized around general themes such as recruitment, motivation, commitment, mobility, and succession, the writings of prominent sociologists--including Riesman, Caplow, Hughes, Becker, and Wilensky--form the content of the book and systematically cover every important facet of organizational careers. The editor's introductions to each section of the book alert the reader to the general phenomena--such as processes, conditions, categories, hypotheses, and properties--that crosscut and are generally relevant to all organizational careers and are, therefore, the raw material of theory. These introductions also suggest questions and problems for further analysis and research. This book as a whole stands as a demonstration of the contributors' method of how the sociologist, working from the data of research, can generate grounded, formal theory on this or any social phenomenon. This book also presents a vital body of data on organizational careers and a guide to further research that will be of great use both to occupational sociologists and to all those involved in the study of organizations.
Author : Paul Bernard Malone
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book A West Point Cadet written by Paul Bernard Malone and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “While never a brilliant student, he [Douglas Atwell] has always been a hard worker, and has won his way through many difficulties. His determined stand against hazing has made him unpopular with some cadets, but he has nevertheless many warm friends and has commanded the universal respect of the corps. Douglas has had several triumphs also as a football player. As this story opens he is nearing the end of his cadet days, and looking forward with confidence to a useful and happy life”—Introduction.
Author : Morris Janowitz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501179322
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Professional Soldier written by Morris Janowitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies three issues that confront civil-military relations to this day: how to judge the political consequences of military conduct, how to solve problems of international relations while using less force, and how to strengthen civilian control of the military while preserving professional military autonomy.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Armed Services written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Service Academies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Administration of the Service Academies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Service Academies and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 66. Investigates whether present laws and regulations assure a professional military force representative of a cross section of the American people. Includes "Professional Training and Education of the Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy; A Final Report" Superintendent, USNA, Feb. 1967 (p. vii-clvii).
Author : Samuel J. Watson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619151
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Peacekeepers and Conquerors written by Samuel J. Watson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jackson's Sword, Samuel Watson showed how the U.S. Army officer corps played a crucial role in stabilizing the frontiers of a rapidly expanding nation. In this sequel volume, he chronicles how the corps' responsibilities and leadership along the young nation's borders continued to grow. In the process, he shows, officers reflected an increasing commitment to professionalism, insulation from partisanship, and deference to civilian authority-all tempered in the forge of frustrating, politically complex operations and diplomacy along the nation's frontiers. Watson now focuses on the quarter-century between the Army's reduction in force in 1821 and the Mexican War. He examines a broad swath of military activity beginning with campaigns against southeastern Indians, notably the dispossession of the Creeks remaining in Georgia and Alabama from 1825 to 1834; the expropriation of the Cherokee between 1836 and 1838; and the Second Seminole War. He also explores peacekeeping on the Canadian border, which exploded in rebellion against British rule at the end of 1837, prompting British officials to applaud the U.S. Army for calming tensions and demonstrating its government's support for the international state system. He then follows the gradual extension of U.S. sovereignty in the Southwest through military operations west of the Missouri River and along the Louisiana-Texas border from 1821 to 1838 and through dragoon expeditions onto the central and southern Plains between 1834 and 1845. Throughout his account, Watson shows how military professionalism did not develop independent of civilian society, nor was it simply a matter of growing expertise in the art of conventional warfare. Indeed, the government trusted career army officers to serve as federal, international, and interethnic mediators, national law enforcers, and de facto intercultural and international peacekeepers. He also explores officers' attitudes toward Britain, Oregon, Texas, and Mexico to assess their values and priorities on the eve of the first conventional war the United States had fought in more than three decades. Watson's detailed study delves deeply into sources that reveal what officers actually thought, wrote, and did in the frontier and border regions. By examining the range of operations over the course of this quarter-century, he shows that the processes of peacekeeping, coercive diplomacy, and conquest were intricately and inextricably woven together.
