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Preparing for War / J. P. Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, J. P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--Officers--Attitudes--History.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Officers--Training of--History.
- Military art and science--United States--History--19th century.
- Military art and science.
- Military art and science--United States--History--20th century.
- Military education--United States--History--19th century.
- Military education.
- Military education--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- 1 A Profession Born in War
- 2 Trials on the Frontier and in Mexico
- 3 The First Upheaval
- 4 The Civil War's Legacy
- 5 Between Old and New
- 6 The Second Upheaval
- 7 Old Soldiers in a New Army
- 8 The Great War
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9780674973107
- 0674973100
- 9780674973084
- 0674973089
- OCLC:
- 967524806
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