Author : Beth Bailey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0674035364
" ... the story of the all-volunteer force, from the draft protests and policy proposals of the 1960s through the Iraq War"--Jacket.
Author : Bernard D. Rostker
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2006-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0833040685
As U.S. military forces appear overcommitted and some ponder a possible return to the draft, the timing is ideal for a review of how the American military transformed itself over the past five decades, from a poorly disciplined force of conscripts and draft-motivated "volunteers" to a force of professionals revered throughout the world. Starting in the early 1960s, this account runs through the current war in Iraq, with alternating chapters on the history of the all-volunteer force and the analytic background that supported decisionmaking. The author participated as an analyst and government policymaker in many of the events covered in this book. His insider status and access offer a behind-the-scenes look at decisionmaking within the Pentagon and White House. The book includes a foreword by former Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird. The accompanying DVD contains more than 1,700 primary-source documents-government memoranda, Presidential memos and letters, staff papers, and reports-linked directly from citations in the electronic version of the book. This unique technology presents a treasure trove of materials for specialists, researchers, and students of military history, public administration, and government affairs to draw upon.
Author : Barbara A. Bicksler
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
Can America continue to maintain its military commitments without conscription?
Author : Sir James Moncrieff Grierson
Publisher : Edinburgh W. Blackwood 1909.
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Includes 47 coloured plates of uniforms.
Author : Hugh Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1000007642
Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century fear of French invasion. It survived and grew for fifty years until in 1908 it was renamed and remodelled as the Territorial Force. Composed initially of middle-class and often middle-aged gentlemen who elected their own officers and paid for their own equipment, the Volunteer Force soon became youthful and working-class, with appointed middle-class officers, a Government subsidy, and a minor military role as an adjunct to the Regular Army. This book examines the origins of the Force, the transformation in its social composition, the difficulties in finding officers who were ‘gentlemen’, the ambiguous status, of the Force both in the local community and in the Regular Army, and the political influence which the Force exerted in the early twentieth century. Above all it is concerned with the reasons for and the implications of enrolment; publicists argued that the Force was the embodiment of patriotism, and an indication of working-class loyalty to established institutions.
Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2019-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783314850
In A Guide to the Volunteers of England 1859-1908, the second of his 'Guides' series, Ray Westlake presents details of the several branches of the Victorian system that saw men from all walks of life give up their spare time to prepare for any invasion, should it take place.
Author : T. Kane
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113751129X
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 : Timothy Bowman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719073717
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) was established in January 1913 as a militant expression of Ulster Unionist opposition to the Third Home Rule Bill. Academic historians have tended to overlook Ulster Loyalism and this book provides the first comprehensive study of the UVF in this period. Using previously neglected sources, it demonstrates that the UVF was better armed and worse trained with the involvement of fewer British army officers than previous historians have allowed. It suggests that the UVF was quite capable of seizing control of Ulster and installing the Ulster Provisional Government in the event of Home Rule being implemented in 1914. This book is essential reading for military and Irish historians, their students, and general readers interested in modern paramilitary forces.
Author : Stephen M. Miller
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806138640
This book spotlights Britain's “citizen army” to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained—and how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but instead to a prolonged guerrilla war.
Author : David J. Galbreath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1317307089
The Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies provides a comprehensive collection of essays on contemporary defence studies by leading international scholars. Defence studies is a multi-disciplinary study of how agents, predominantly states, prepare for and go to war. Whereas security studies has been broadened and stretched to cover at times the near totality of international and domestic affairs, and war studies has come to mean not just operations and tactics but also experiences and outcomes, defence studies remains a coherent area of study primarily aimed at how defence policy changes over time and in relation to stimulating factors such as alterations in power, strategy and technology. This new Handbook offers a complete landscape of this area of study and contributes to a review of defence studies in terms of policy, security and war, but also looks forward to new challenges to existing conceptions of defence and how this is changing as states and their militaries also change. The volume is divided into four thematic sections: Defence as Policy; Defence Practice; Operations and Tactics; and Contemporary Defence Issues. The ability to review the field while also looking forward to further research is an important element of a sustainable text on defence studies. In as much as this volume is able to highlight the main themes of defence studies, it also offers an in-depth look into how defence issues can be examined and compared in a contemporary setting. This Handbook will be of great interest to students of defence studies, strategic studies, war studies, security studies and IR.
