In Februruary 1972, Working in the perpetual Drizzle that shrouds the central coast of Vietnam each winter, soldiers from the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) produced a photographic inventory of two bases newly acquired from the Americans. Just a few weeks before, some thirty thousand US Army and Marine Corps troops removed themselves with thousands of tons of equipment from PhĂ…
This collection brings together essays concerned with the military profession and professionalism in Denmark, Norway and Sweden – theoretical and empirical studies of professional value systems, professional roles, professional logics, pro-fessional development and professional education and training.European militaries have changed, in some ways quite profoundly, since t…
The science of strategy is a theoretical system about strategy and a discipline that studies the overall guiding laws for the use and construction of military forces. Its main task is to reveal the essence, characteristics, and basic principles of strategy, to study the guiding laws of military conflict and army building as a whole, and to provide systematic and scientific theoretical guidance …
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 accepte…
In the Active Duty chapters of this report, data are presented for the four DoD Service branches (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force). Some information about the DHS’s Active Duty Coast Guard is presented in the Total Military Force chapter of this report. In the Reserve and Guard Members chapter, the label “Total DoD” is used to reflect the six Reserve components under DoD (Army Nat…
Several changes have occurred since the 1985 revision of General Information Leaflet (GIL) Number 7, Military Service Records in the National Archives of the United States. This reference information paper (RIP) replaces GIL 7 and updates much of its content. For example,some records listed under the Coast Guard section of GIL 7 as residing in the Washington National Records Center in Suitland…
This is the first broad-ranging, comprehensive and comparative study of the concepts of propaganda and neutrality. Bringing together world-leading and early career historians, this open access book explores case studies from the time of the First World War to the end of the Cold War in countries such as Belgium, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland, Vichy France, USA, Argentina, Turkey…
Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618–1648 investigates change and decline in military institutions during a period of protracted and destructive European warfare. Conceptual background is provided by the Military Revolution thesis, which argues that changes in military technology and tactics drove revolutionary transformation in the way states organised and waged war in the early…
By the time of the Vietnam War era, the “Mexican American Generation” had made tremendous progress both socially and politically. However, the number of Mexican Americans in comparison to the number of white prisoners of war (POWs) illustrated the significant discrimination and inequality the Chicano population faced in both military and civilian landscapes. Chicanos were disproportionately…
Standardized military and associated terminology forms the foundation of joint doctrine. It enables the joint force to organize, plan, train, and execute operations with a common language that is clearly articulated and universally understood. Since 1948, military terms have been codified in the DOD Dictionary. Although different in purpose, policy documents also require standardized terminolog…