The Medal of Honor : The Evolution of America's Highest Military Decoration /

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"In The Medal of Honor, Dwight Mears takes a comprehensive look at the historical, legal, and policy underpinnings of the Medal of Honor (often referred to as the Congressional Medal of Honor), America's highest military decoration for valor in combat. In recent years the medal's elig...

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Autor principal: Mears, Dwight S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Military decorations > Law and legislation.
Medals > Law and legislation.
Medal of Honor.
Decorations of honor > Law and legislation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Medal of Honor > Histoire.
Medals > Law and legislation > United States.
Decorations of honor > Law and legislation > United States.
Military decorations > Law and legislation > United States.
Medal of Honor > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Legal and policy history
  • From the Revolution through the Civil War: background and inception
  • Filling the Army's policy vacuum: 1876-1897
  • The Spanish-American War, Veracruz, and Navy officers: 1898-1915
  • The Purge of 1917: The Army rewrites its award history
  • World War I: The birth of the Pyramid of Honor
  • The interwar period: a bifurcated Medal of Honor and new decorations
  • World War II: growing pains and the end of noncombat awards
  • The Korean and Vietnam Wars: new combat thresholds
  • Post-Vietnam: modern concern over the decline in award frequency
  • Exceptions to the rules: legislative, administrative, and judicial relief
  • Early bills of relief and extralegislative awards
  • Modern bills of relief: 10 U.S.C. 1130
  • Administrative remedies: Boards for Correction
  • Administrative restorations: Mary Walker and William Cody
  • Judicial remedies: the Administrative Procedure Act
  • Correction of discrimination or impropriety
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Summary of Medal of Honor legislation (excluding bills of relief).

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