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The Army - a deterrent to aggression.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Big picture ; episode 462
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army.
- United States.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
- Basic training (Military education).
- Europe, Southern--Military relations--United States.
- Europe, Southern.
- United States--Military relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (29 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Washington D.C. : Army Pictorial Service, 1959.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Here is a documentary of the Army's role in 1960. It is a tabulation of both the Army's achievements as well as its mission in maintaining a worldwide war deterrent while improving its readiness to meet the challenge of tomorrow. One important feature in this film presentation is its complete report on the modernization of the Army in its organization, tactics, thinking, personnel practices, and operations, stressing also the materiel and personnel needs and requirements of the Army for the present and the future. Stress is placed on the necessity for effective control and rapid movement of individual soldiers and units to enable the Army forces, in any kind of war, to apply manpower and firepower at the decisive points, and in the degree necessary to ensure success on the battlefield.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 26, 2010).
- Previously published as DVD.
- OCLC:
- 701797314
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