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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"officer corps"”.
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“THE GREAT QUESTION”: SLAVERY, SECTIONALISM, AND THE U.S. NAVAL OFFICER CORPS, 1820-1861
… dissertation analyzes how United States naval officers’ beliefs about race and slavery shaped sectionalism between the North and South in the antebellum era. As agents of the federal government operating far from the capital, naval officers had significant influence on the implementation of …
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Ruin and Redemption: Losing and Regaining Honour in the Canadian Officer Corps, 1914—1945
… as administrative punishments used to deprive officers of their commissions for misconduct, inefficiency, and incompetence. An officer’s failure to follow the formally and informally enshrined rules and values recognized as honourable in military culture deprived him of the right to respect …
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Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847.
… of the performance of the Mexican general officer corps during the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847. Often negatively libeled, Mexicos defeat is often attributed in no small part to the moral shortcomings of the generals who led her armies. By a detailed analysis of their background, …
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"The Painful Task of Thinking Belongs To Me:" Rethinking Royal Navy Signal Reform during the American War of Independence
… It argues that changes in the ethos of the officer corps before and during the American War of Independence led to a complex period of signal reform. The original system was tied to the General Printed Sailing and Fighting Instructions, more often referred to as the Fighting Instructions. …
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Conduct Unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman: Honour and Dishonour in the Court Martial Records of the Marines Ashore, 1783-1793
This dissertation is an examination of the Marine Corps during the late eighteenth century. The main focus of the research is upon the officer corps and specifically examines the connections of masculine interactions, through the use of the charge ‘conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman’, in …
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Race, politics, and armies: The dynamics of military modernization in twentieth-century colonial India
… army, complete with its own institutionalized officer corps. This impressive achievement was the culmination of a complex, if cautious, program of military modernization and has practically been ignored by the historiography on the colonial Indian army. The scant work that has been done tends …
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Future Nelsons: A quantitative social history study of British naval cadets, 1884-1894
… by a significant increase in recruitment of officers and men after the Naval Defence Act (1889). The importance of the navy and its future leaders was of significant interest to the navy, the British government and the public. Several reviews of the educational provision were undertaken, and …
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THE LOGISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY, 1812–1821
… focuses on the lesser-known story of how the Corps of Quartermasters made logistics work under difficult conditions. It investigates how the military professionals within the officer corps drew lessons from their wartime travails and made common cause with reform-minded civilians in the hope …
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Rotten to the Corps: Understanding the Human Rights Consequences of Military Failure Through the Eyes of Russian Prisoners of War
… logistics and equipment, and the failure of the officer corps were identified as factors of military failure which contributed to human rights abuses and war crimes. Training was measured through the sub factors of insufficient training and correlation of the prisoner’s peacetime profession and …
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Professional Identity of Army Officers in Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-1790
… explores the existence and outlook of a European officer class in the mid- to later 18th century by studying the army officers of Britain and the Habsburg Monarchy from the War of the Austrian Succession to the eve of the French Revolutionary Wars. It illuminates the character of such an officer …
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Significant pre-accession factors predicting success or failure during a Marine Corps officer’s initial service obligation
… is a priority of the commandant of the Marine Corps. In an effort to provide information to the Marine Corps that may improve recruiting practice and enable retention of a higher quality and more diverse officer corps, probit econometric models are estimated to identify significant factors an …
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The potential for religious conflict in the United States Military
… as members of the clergy and as members of the officer corps. As religious diversity grows, the likelihood of controversy increases when, for instance, Indian members of the Native American Church take peyote, Wiccans observe pagan rites on military bases, and Muslim chaplains serve Muslim …
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Managing a sea of information : shipboard command and control in the United States Navy, 1899-1945
… argues that early-to-mid twentieth century naval officers' development and employment of increasingly sophisticated shipboard command and control systems fundamentally altered the human experience of warfare at sea. Based predominately on archival research, Managing a Sea of Information follows a …
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Higher Command: An Examination of African American Leadership in the Vietnam Era
… leadership. Out of the 389,344 members of the officer corps only two percent of them were African American. Though the percentage is small, this increase was significant. This study seeks to provide a better understanding as to how this two percent of black leadership navigated the Vietnam War. …
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Diplomacy and US-Muslim world relations: the possibility of the post-secular and interfaith dialogue
… requires the recruitment of a Religion Attaché Officer Corps within the United States Foreign Service. A new Religion Attaché, equipped with a background in broad religious affairs and communication training in Interfaith Diplomacy, is likely to make significant headway in counteracting the …
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An exploration of the Army's diversity culture : a collective case study that captures the emotional intelligence of successful male African American general officers.
… characteristics empowered four successful officers to succeed in unbalanced circumstances. The Army's General Officer corps is approximately 85% White officers, and the African American General Officer population is 11% (General Officer Management Office, 2021). The unbalanced scale is …
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Systemic Issues with US Army Talent Management and Retention
The Officer Personnel Management Act of 1947 standardized the talent management of officers across all the DoD services and implemented an “up or out” system that incentivized top-performing officers for promotion while removing officers from service who did not possess the potential to serve at …