Preparing for War - The Emergence of the Modern U.s. Army, 18151917

Informationen zum Autor A former member of the history faculty at West Point, J. P. Clark is an active duty army officer who has served as a strategic advisor to senior civilian and military officials in the Pentagon and British Ministry of Defence. Klappentext The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role, but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically between the War of 1812 and World War I. J. P. Clark shows how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional soldiers left their mark upon the Army and its ways. Zusammenfassung The U.S. Army has always regarded preparing for war as its peacetime role! but how it fulfilled that duty has changed dramatically between the War of 1812 and World War I. J. P. Clark shows how differing personal experiences of war and peace among successive generations of professional soldiers left their mark upon the Army and its ways.

Product details

• Authors: J P Clark, J. P. Clark, Clark J. P., J. P. Clark
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780674545731
• ISBN: 978-0-674-54573-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, military history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA