Citizen Soldiers In A Time Of Transition
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Citizen Soldiers In A Time Of Transition
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Author : Stephanie Sanok Kostro
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-05-02
Citizen Soldiers In A Time Of Transition written by Stephanie Sanok Kostro and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-02 with Political Science categories.
Currently, U.S. armed forces are facing a rapidly shifting environment. Even as the major combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that defined the last decade are coming to an end, a wide variety of new and evolving challenges, both abroad and at home, are confronting the nation’s military. The U.S. Army National Guard faces a unique set of dynamics, given its role in domestic as well as overseas operations. As the Army National Guard considers its future, it asked the CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program to provide an independent analysis of the strategic-level issues facing the Guard, as well as its evolving roles and missions. This report provides policymakers and practitioners with objective insights and recommendations to assist in outlining potential future responsibilities for the Army National Guard.
Militia Myths
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Author : James A. Wood
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2010
Militia Myths written by James A. Wood and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The image of farmers and workers called to the colours endures in Canada’s social memory of the First World War. But is the ideal of being a citizen first and a soldier only by necessity as recent as our histories and memories suggest? Militia Myths brings to light a military culture that consistently employed the citizen soldier as its foremost symbol, but was otherwise in a state of profound transition. At the time of Confederation, the defence of Canada itself represented the country’s only real obligation to the British Empire, but by the early twentieth century Canadians were already fighting an imperial war in South Africa. In 1914, they began raising an army to fight on the Western Front. By the end of the First World War, the ideological transition was complete: for better or for worse, the untrained civilian who had answered the call-to-arms in 1914 replaced the long-serving volunteer militiaman of the past as the archetypical Canadian citizen soldier. Militia Myths traces the evolution of a uniquely Canadian amateur military tradition -- one that has had an enormous impact on the country’s experience of the First and Second World Wars. Published in association with the Canadian War Museum.
Command And Cohesion
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Author : M. A. Ramsay
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2002-03-30
Command And Cohesion written by M. A. Ramsay and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-30 with History categories.
This study brings together military history and intellectual history to provide a better understanding of the factors that influence military thinking and practice. In particular, Ramsay covers thought concerning the evolution of British minor tactics between 1870 and 1918, from the era of the black powder rifle wielded by a career soldier to the age of the citizen soldier in the Great War. The development of new military technologies in the last quarter of the 19th century led to novel tactical systems, which included new, decentralized methods of tactical command and control at a time when mass, citizen-based armies were becoming the norm in Europe. While the British Army's system of command and control evolved to meet these new combat conditions, its response was conditioned by the officers' assessment of the rank and file who served in its peacetime volunteer army as well as by the corporate interests of the professional officer corps. This development marked a watershed in military practice and theory, the transition from closely supervised small units under the immediate command of a career officer, to decentralized tactics under the direction of a junior officer or NCO who had been a civilian before the war. Using models such as those proposed by Thomas Kuhn in his Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Ramsay treats military theory in the same manner as intellectual historians have regarded other areas of reasoning, to illustrate the forces that can shape military theory and to provide an explanation of those that may impede necessary changes in military thinking. To date, tactical studies have rarely looked below the battalion level of command; thus, the technology of the First World War has been extensively studied, but the psychology far less so. This is ironic given that armies of the First World War relied more than any earlier armies on conscripted civilians from a political and social culture that strove to suppress violence in civil society. As a result, this book will interest sociologists and psychologists who seek insight into the history of their disciplines, as well as cultural and social historians who study British history.
Citizens More Than Soldiers
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Author : Harry S. Laver
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Citizens More Than Soldiers written by Harry S. Laver and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Historians depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside. This book demonstrates that, to the contrary, militia remained an active civil institution in early nineteenth century, affecting era's social, political, and economic transitions.
Volunteers On The Veld
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Author : Stephen M. Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2007
Volunteers On The Veld written by Stephen M. Miller and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
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.
Department Of Defense Authorization For Appropriations For Fiscal Year 2011
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Department Of Defense Authorization For Appropriations For Fiscal Year 2011 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Military research categories.
Presidential Commission On National Service And National Commission On Volunteerism
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Presidential Commission On National Service And National Commission On Volunteerism written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Government publications categories.
Air University Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979-11
Air University Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-11 with Aeronautics categories.
Nations And Their Histories
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Author : S. Carvalho
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-10-09
Nations And Their Histories written by S. Carvalho and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-09 with Political Science categories.
Nations and their Histories highlights the importance of the past and its uses in the formation of modern nations and national identities. The book looks at the construction of different national historiographies as well as present representations of the past in the political and cultural life of nations, covering the five continents.
The Future Of The Citizen Soldier Force
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Author : Jeffrey Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-15
The Future Of The Citizen Soldier Force written by Jeffrey Jacobs and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.
One of the most significant post-Cold War issues is the future of the U.S. Army's reserve components. Although National Guard and Army Reserve units fought well in the first Persian Gulf war, Jeffrey Jacobs warns that Americans should not be sanguine about their ability to perform effectively in future conflicts. Having served in the active Army as well as both the Guard and the Reserve, Jacobs offers a unique perspective on the current missions, structure, and policies of the Army and the impact of the reserve system on its readiness for combat. From both active and reserve points of view, Jacobs describes the current limitations and deficiencies inherent in the separate structures of the Army's three disparate components. He finds the roots of many of the reserves' problems in their strong ties to traditions and politics. The solutions he proposes focus on integrating the three components into a true Total Army -- in fact as well as in rhetoric. Such reforms will affect several sacred cows, including state control of the National Guard, the weekend drill system, and the geography-based reserve system. Much has been written about the reserves, but few recent writers have proposed such far-reaching reforms. Jacobs's controversial proposals will interest those who make, influence, and study military policy. Here is a stimulating and thought-provoking consideration of a vital aspect of America's defense posture.