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Beyond Combat : Australian military activity away from the battlefield.

War is only a small part of military life. Uniformed men and women spend the vast majority of their time away from combat, training, receiving medical attention, burying the dead and undertaking the myriad tasks of survival in an operational zone. Beyond Combat explores how the military manages its...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moss, Tristan
Otros Autores: Richardson, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of New South Wales Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acsacs Series; Contributors; Disclaimer; 1. Missing in action: non-combat military activities and history; Managing Soldiers and Their Families; 2. Bring the family: Australia's overseas military communities and regional engagement, 1945-1988; 3. From witch-hunts to pride balls: the ADF and LGBTI service personnel; 4. Sexuality at a cost: lesbian servicewomen in the Australian military, 1960s-1980s; Military Education; 5. Chalkies and civics: teaching the military in Papua New Guinea, 1966-1972; 6. Training for the enduring human dimension of war.
  • 7. Military education: establishing the Diploma of Military Science, 1907-1915Caring For The Soldiers; 8. The lousy business of war: lice-infested uniforms and British preventive medicine in the First World War; 9. 'My dearest girls': letters from Australian Army nurses; 10. From bully beef to crème caramel: feeding the troops; 11. From front line to rear echelon: Australia's Army bands after the Second World War; Remembrance and The Dead; 12. Search, recovery and 'closure': the Royal Australian Air Force and its missing from wars of the 20th century; 13. Morphing vessels into artifacts.
  • 14. Singapore's 'new' military history: a military history from a non-war fighting pastNotes; Acknowledgments; Index.