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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"History, Military"”.
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Spanish Neutrality in World War II
… international event known to recorded history. Military operations have been minutely analyzed; political and economic influences carefully evaluated, and the part played in the conflict by both individual statesmen and individual nations has been painstakingly examined. |This literary …
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THE LOGISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, 1812–1821
… the U.S. Army proved to be the most intractable military problem of the War of 1812. Logistics became the bane of successive secretaries of war and field commanders, and of the soldiers who fought the British and Canadian troops, and their native allies. Historians have correctly ascribed the …
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"""Vive La Republique. Vive L'empereur."": Military Culture and Motivation in the Armies of Napoleon, 1803--1808"
… also sought to restore traditional sources of military motivation in the army including esprit de corps and coercion that the Revolutionaries tried to suppress. This study demonstrates, however, that even as the Napoleonic regime strove to alter the character of the French army, it continued to …
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Maricas de etiqueta: identidad gay en el cine reciente de España y el Cono Sur
… with similar political experiences in recent history— military dictatorships, ostensibly seamless transitions toward democracy, and major strides for LGBTQ-inclusive legislation. I examine the representation of MSM in these contexts through three genres/themes seldom present in films from …
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"PRACTICALLY IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES": THE 1ST REGIMENT, NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1903-1912
In the early twentieth century, reformers within the U.S. War Department attempted to create a more robust and formalized reserve system to augment the regular army. While many regular officers advocated a federalized reserve, they were opposed by members of the National Guard Association, who …
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From Revolutionary War heroes to navy cruisers : the role of public history and military history in Vincennes, Indiana
This thesis looks at the role that public history, expressed through civic pride and public memory, and military history have played in shaping the history of Vincennes, Indiana, from the battle fought by George Rogers Clark to the memorial named after him and finally with the four United States …
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National Power and Military Force: the Origins of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984
… what circumstances should the United States use military force in pursuit of national interests? Despite not having a policy upon entering office or articulating one throughout its first term, the Reagan administration used military force numerous times. Two-weeks following Reagan's landslide …
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FIGHTING A "CRUEL AND SAVAGE FOE": COUNTERINSURGENCY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES FROM THE INDIAN WARS TO THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR (1899-1902)
… of the Philippine- American War (1899-1902). Military historians often downplayed the impact of human rights abuses, while emphasizing the success of the U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency instead. In contrast, social historians frequently focused on human rights abuses at the expense of …
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"Getting Rid of the Line:" Toward an American Infantry Way of Battle, 1918-1945
This dissertation explores the development of America’s infantry forces between 1918-1945. While doing so, it challenges and complicates the traditional narrative that highlights the fierceness of the rivalry between the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. During the First World War, both commissioned and …
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The Army's Orphans: The United States Army Replacement System in the European Campaign, 1944-1945
Military historians have been debating the U.S. Army's World War II replacement system for decades, but no one has completed a detailed study of the War Department's policies and practice. Authors have focused primarily on how combat units overcame the system's limitations, but they have not …
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The Forgotten Boys of the Ninth Corps: Reappraising the Combat Performance of the 31st Maine and 17th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiments
… Tapping the methods of social and traditional military history, this work is among the first to assess the record of these soldiers under fire. It does so by tracing the experiences of the 17th Vermont and 31st Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiments, starting with their formation and continuing …
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The U.S. - U.S.S.R. Nuclear Balance: Present and Future
<p>The purpose of this paper will be to arrive at some sort of understanding about the real importance of nuclear weapons in the hands of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., something which has not been done heretofore in as skilled a fashion as is possible. There are a number of reasons for this, some of …
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British Intelligence Operations During the Anglo-Irish War
… will show that British law enforcement and the military were in fact more successful in combating Irish nationalists than previously believed.
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The United States and the Concentration Camp Trials at Dachau, 1945-1947
… of three distinct trial sets: the International Military Trial at Nuremburg, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, and military trials held at the former concentration camp at Dachau. Within the Dachau military tribunal programme, were the concentration camp trials in which personnel from the Dachau, …
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