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Modern American Military

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ISBN-10: 0199895945

ISBN-13: 9780199895946

Edition: 2013

Authors: David M. Kennedy

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The Modern American Militaryis composed of essays surveying the mission and character of the United States armed forces in the twenty-first century. Authors examine force configuration, composition, doctrine, and training, as well as questions of who serves and why, the nature of modern warfare, the relation of the military to civil society, and its role in the institutional structure that constitutes the national security apparatus. As appropriate, the essays take an historical approach, emphasizing the strategic, technological, and cultural factors that have made the modern U.S. armed forces distinctive, both with respect to their own national antecedents and with respect to other…    
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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/7/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.49" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

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Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
The Counterrevolution in Strategic Affairs
The U.S. Armed Forces' View of War
Weapons: The Growth and Spread of the Precision-Strike Regime
American Military Culture from Colony to Empire
Manning and Financing the Twenty-First-Century All-Volunteer Force
Military Contractors and the American Way of War
Filming War
The Future of Conscription: Some Comparative Reflections
Whose Army?
Reassessing the All-Volunteer Force
Military Justice
Women in the U.S. Military: The Evolution of Gender Norms and Military Requirements
Casualties
Index