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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Standing Army"”.
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Disruptive soldiers : literary responses to the standing army controversy (1688-1846)
… consideration of literary engagements with the Standing Army Controversy in Britain and America from the Glorious Revolution until the start of the Mexican-American War (1688 -1846). More specifically, I examine a selection of prominent literary examples from the period and situate them within …
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The local dimensions of defence: the standing army and militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649-1660
Thesis: The local dimensions of defence: the standing army and militia in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex 1649-1660. Part l: Interregnum governments faced numerous threats to their security and military power: internally from Royalist conspiracies and political dissidence, and externally from the …
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The benefits of a United Nations Standing Army: Using Article 43 of the UN Charter to improve international human rights and peace
… and the public opinion. However, an organized standing army under the UN would arguably do far better at ensuring the protection of human rights across the world. Based off the cohesive and structured nature of a standing army, a UN army would likely find far more success in promoting …
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Living With the Redcoats: Anglo-American Response to the Quartering Acts, 1756-1776
… Boston, marked a turning point as the fear of a standing army in peace time redefined Anglo-American opposition to the quartering of redcoats. The significance of Anglo-American opposition to the Quartering Acts paled in comparison to other colonial grievances that stemmed from taxation issues, …
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Congress and Early Federalist Military Policy: An Examination of Defense Related Roll Calls in the Second United States Congress, 1792-1793
… been indelibly imprinted with a fear of a large standing army in peacetime from their own personal experiences in the pre-Revolutionary days. Many of those who would become stalwarts of the Republican Party in later years felt that a militia, while often miltarily ineffective, preserved the …