The modern American military /
The advent of the all-volunteer force and the evolving nature of modern warfare have transformed our military, changing it in serious if subtle ways that few Americans are aware of. Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy, this stimulating volume brings together insights from a r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The counterrevolution in strategic affairs / Lawrence Freedman
- The U.S. Armed Forces' view of war / Brian McAllister Linn
- Weapons: the growth and spread of the precision-strike regime / Thomas G. Mahnken
- American military culture from colony to empire / Robert L. Goldich
- Manning and financing the twenty-first century all-volunteer force / David R. Segal & Lawrence J. Korb
- Military contractors and the American way of war / Deborah Avant and Rene de Nevers
- Filming war / Jay Winter
- The future of conscription: some comparative reflections / James Sheehan
- Whose army? / Andrew J. Bacevich
- Assessing the all-volunteer force / Karl W. Eikenberry
- Military justice / Charles J. Dunlap Jr
- Women in the U.S. military : the evolution of gender norms and military requirements / Michelle Sandhoff and Mady Wechsler Segal
- Casualties / Jonathan Shay.