Creating the Modern Army : Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919–1939 /
"The modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. After 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 g...
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- The quest for a national military policy, 1878-1920
- Creating the citizen Army, 1919-1925
- Disappointment and disillusionment : the Army and the nation, 1920-1925
- The heart of the policy creating the new citizen Army
- The Army in the era of stability, 1926-1929 : creating the branches
- Stabilizing the relationship : the Army and the nation in the era of stability
- The civilian components in the era of stability
- Creating orthodoxy and predictability : professional military education in the Army, 1919-1939
- Building a throne for the queen : infantry branch organization and branch culture in the 1920s
- Branch stagnation : American field artillery in the interwar period
- End of the big guns : mission and branch identity crisis in the coastal artillery, 1919-1939
- Mechanizing the Army, 1930-1939
- The Army besieged : the Army and the nation in the decade of the Depression, 1930-1939
- Stability amidst crisis : the civilian components in the 1930s
- Modern weapons and traditional tactics, the infantry and tanks, 1920-1939
- Mounts or motors? The cavalry and the response to mechanization, 1920-1939.