Real Soldiering : The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980 / Brian McAllister Linn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linn, Brian McAllister, author.

Series:

Modern war studies.

Modern War Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armed Forces--Military life.

Armed Forces.

Sociology, Military--United States.

Sociology, Military.

United States. Amy--History.

United States.

United States. Army.

United States. Army--Military life.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023]

Summary:

"In Real Soldiering, Brian Linn demonstrates that each conflict has produced a distinct aftermath army that shares many characteristics with its predecessors. These aftermath armies follow similar patterns of creation and evolution. In the first three to four years after the termination of hostilities, political and military policymakers reform the service based on the perceived lessons of the last conflict. All too often the army, and its historians, have assumed these initial high-level directives, particularly in easily identifiable issues such as doctrine or organization, were soon implemented in the field. But it takes much longer for many of these changes to percolate down to the rank and file. Some never do. For a variety of reasons, among them that politicians seldom fund the changes they impose, organizational inertia, personnel turbulence, and institutional resistance, the aftermath army a decade after a conflict seldom resembles what its creators envisioned"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The nineteenth-century aftermath army

Postscript to the imperial wars

The aftermath army in the decade after World War I

The aftermath army of World War 2 and Korea

The hollow army after Vietnam, 1970-1980.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780700634767

0700634762