Browsing by Subject "History, Military"
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"It Means Something These Days to be a Marine": Image, Identity, and Mission in the Marine Corps, 1861-1918
(2010)Throughout much of the nineteenth century, the Marine Corps plodded along, a small military institution little known to the public. Moreover, the institution faced a host of problems ranging from recruiting difficulties ... -
Military Service, Combat, and American Identity in the Progressive Era
(2008-09-29)During the First World War, approximately two million troops served with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), the army that functioned as the material and symbolic focal point of America's commitment to the defeat of ... -
National Power and Military Force: the Origins of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984
(2008-04-22)This dissertation addresses one of the most vexing issues in American foreign policy: Under what circumstances should the United States use military force in pursuit of national interests? Despite not having a policy upon ... -
The Many Faces of Reform: Military Progressivism in the U.S. Army, 1866-1916
(2009)In the years 1866-1916, the U.S. Army changed from a frontier constabulary to an industrial age force capable of expeditionary operations. This conversion was made possible by organizational reforms including the creation ...
