The Regulars : : The American Army, 1898–1941 / / Edward M. Coffman.
In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America'...
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Coffman, Edward M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Regulars : The American Army, 1898–1941 / Edward M. Coffman. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2004] ©2007 1 online resource (528 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- Prologue -- ONE The Army Begins a New Era -- TWO The Colonial Army -- THREE Life and Training in the Philippines -- FOUR Enlisted Men in the New Army -- FIVE The Managerial Revolution -- SIX The War to End All Wars -- SEVEN The Army in Limbo -- EIGHT Soldiering in the 1920s and 1930s -- NINE The Army in Pacific Outposts, 1919–1940 -- TEN Mobilizing for War -- Postscript -- ESSAY ON SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting workers. Forty-three years later, in 1941, it was a large modern army ready to wage global war against the Germans and the Japanese. In this definitive social history of America's standing army, military historian Edward Coffman tells how that critical transformation was accomplished. Coffman has spent years immersed in the official records, personal papers, memoirs, and biographies of regular army men, including such famous leaders as George Marshall, George Patton, and Douglas MacArthur. He weaves their stories, and those of others he has interviewed, into the story of an army which grew from a small community of posts in China and the Philippines to a highly effective mechanized ground and air force. During these years, the U.S. Army conquered and controlled a colonial empire, military staff lived in exotic locales with their families, and soldiers engaged in combat in Cuba and the Pacific. In the twentieth century, the United States entered into alliances to fight the German army in World War I, and then again to meet the challenge of the Axis Powers in World War II. Coffman explains how a managerial revolution in the early 1900s provided the organizational framework and educational foundation for change, and how the combination of inspired leadership, technological advances, and a supportive society made it successful. In a stirring account of all aspects of garrison life, including race relations, we meet the men and women who helped reconfigure America's frontier army into a modern global force. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) HISTORY / Military / United States. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674262690 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674262690 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674262690/original |
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