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A Voice to Be Heard
A history of the New South Wales College of Nursing
Creating the Modern Army
The modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior to World War I, officers in leadership positions were increasingly convinced that building a new army could not take place as a series of random developments but was an enterprise that had to be guided by a distinct military policy that enjoyed the support of the nation. In 1920, Congress accepted that idea and embodied it in the National Defense Act. In doing so it also accepted army leadership’s idea of entrusting America’s security to a unique force, the Citizen Army, and tasked the nation’s Regular Army with developing and training that force. Creating the Modern Army details the eff...
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Cavalry Yellow & Infantry Blue
"An officer is more than a pair of shoulder straps," writes Constance Altshuler in her introduction to this remarkable book. Drawing together biographical data collected over a lifetime of research, the author has created a worthy companion to her earlier works, Chains of Command: Arizona and the Army, 1856-1875 and Starting with Defiance: Nineteenth Century Arizona Military Posts. Here the focus is on individual lives. Cavalry Yellow & Infantry Blue presents concise, insightful biographies of army officers serving in Arizona between 1851, when the first American post was established, and 1886, when Geronimo's surrender officially ended the Indian Wars.
United States Military History 1865 to the Present Day
Explaining America's rise as a global military power challenges the methodologies of military history. This volume looks beyond the major conflicts covered elsewhere in the Library to explore the operational, conceptual, technological and cultural forces that shaped the United States military after the American Civil War. Individual articles reflect the wide range of topics and approaches that contribute to the growing understanding of the American military and its relationship with its parent society.
