The Modern American Military

Herausgeber: Kennedy, David M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Modern American Military is composed of essays surveying the mission and character of the United States armed forces in the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199895946
• ISBN-10: 0199895945
• Artikelnr.: 36694056

Autorenporträt

David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University and the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He won the Bancroft Prize for Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Over Here: The First World War and American Society, and won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. He is also the editor of the renowned Oxford History of the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Mission by Lawrence Freedman
2. The Force by David Segal and Lawrence Korb
3. Command by Andrew Bacevich
4. The Armed Forces' View of War by Brian Linn
5. Images
6. Obedience and Disobedience by Errol Morris
7. International Comparisons by James Sheehan
8. Mercenaries by Deborah Avant and Renee de Nevers
9. Weapons by Thomas Mahnken
10. Casualties by Jonathan Shays
11. Culture: Life Inside the Military by Robert Goldich
12. The "Military-Industrial Complex " Today by Charles J. Dunlap
13. Gender and Sexuality by Martha McSally
14. Military Law by Eugene Fidell