Book Description
This is a study of the intense political conflict that took place between 1943 and 1947 over the unification of the military services.
Author : Demetrios Caraley
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1966
Category : United States
ISBN :
This is a study of the intense political conflict that took place between 1943 and 1947 over the unification of the military services.
Author : Demetrios Caraley
Publisher :
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
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Author : Demetrios CARALEY
Publisher :
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Paolo Enrico Coletta
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874131260
This book provides a historical background to the problems met during the early days of defense unification of the three U.S. military services: the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force. The author analyzes the problem of unification during both peacetime and wartime, showing how the Korean War served to point up the capabilities and limitations of the three services.
Author : Gordon W. Keiser
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780898758047
This National Defense University Military History examines the role of the U. S. Marine Corps in the defense unification controversy of 1944-1947. World War II demanded the coordinated training, equipping, transporting, and employing of huge forces and soon exposed the organizational flaws of the prewar military establishment. Sentiment for unifying the U. S. military effort predated World War II, but the war provided the impetus for a major reorganization. Long before the end of the war, there was a growing conviction in the War Department and Congress to establish a system to coordinate and unify the activities of the U. S. Armed Forces. The National Security Act established a more unified defense entity in 1947, but the Marine Corps - deftly practicing the "politics of survival" - emerged with its organizational identity and integrity essentially intact. The author, Colonel Gordon Keiser, USMC, relates the history of how the Corps managed to survive amidst the political maneuvering of more than an account of one Services struggle to endure. It contains interesting insights into the origins of the modern Department of Defense and the current defense policymaking process. Although todays circumstances are vastly changed, the Nation remains concerned about issues such as defense organization, the proper role of military lobbying, and the relationship of the Services to one another and to the Congress.
Author : Amitai Etzioni
Publisher : New York, Holt
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Regionalism (International organization).
ISBN :
A comparison trying to determine the right conditions of political unification and the political leadership qualities of the integrating government. Case studies. Two unions failed - uar (Egypt and Syrian Arab Republic) and federation of West indies (Caribbean). Two successful unions - nordic associational web (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) and EC countries. International relations.
Author : Andrew Bickford
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 34,33 MB
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804777160
Military officers are often the first to be considered politically dangerous when a state loses its authority. Overnight, actions once considered courageous are deemed criminal, and men once praised as heroes are redefined as villains. In Fallen Elites, Andrew Bickford examines how states make soldiers and what happens to fallen military elites when they no longer fit into the political spectrum. Gaining unprecedented entry into the lives of former East German officers in unified Germany, Bickford relates how these men and their families have come to terms with the shock of unification, capitalism, and citizenship since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Often caricatured as unrepentant, hard-line communists, former officers recount how they have struggled with their identities and much-diminished roles. Their disillusionment speaks to global questions about the contentious relationship between the military, citizenship, masculinity, and state formation today. Casting a critical eye on Western triumphalism, they provide a new perspective on our own deep-seated assumptions about "soldier making," both at home and abroad.
Author : Larry Dean O'Brien
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1969
Category : United States
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Author : Mattia Roveri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 3030571610
This book sheds new light on the role of the military in Italian society and culture during war and peacetime by bringing together a whole host of contributors across the interdisciplinary spectrum of Italian Studies. Divided into five thematic units, this volume examines the continuous and multifaceted impact of the military on modern and contemporary Italy. The Italian context offers a particularly fertile ground for studying the cultural impact of the military because the institution was used not only for defensive/offensive purposes, but also to unify the country and to spread ideas of socio-cultural and technological development across its diverse population.
Author : Gordon W. Keiser
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 1982
Category : United States
ISBN :
An examination of the controversy surrounding defense organization in the period 1944-1947 is fitting in light of current events. Having passed through public disenchantment attendant to the Vietnam war (by no means our country's first unpopular fight), the US national security establishment is being promised rebirth. With fresh designs for defense organization in the offing, it is worthwhile to study the heated policy conflict that ultimately resulted in a structure affecting virtually every aspect of civil-military relations in the United States. The Marine Corps' part in the conflict is a little-known chapter in American civil-military relations or, more precisely, the field of politico-military affirs. The purpose of this study is to analyze events leading to the enactment of the National Security Act, focusing on the Marine Corps as perhaps the most vocal and bitter military opponent of the concept of unification expressed by the War Deparment. The main themes of this study are: centralization versus dectralization in the defense structure, the role of military lobbying, and the relationship between the Marine Corps on one hand, and Congress and its constituency on the other.