US intervention policy and army innovation : from Vietnam to Iraq / / Richard Lock-Pullan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783947703321
• Autore: Lock-Pullan Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-135-76504-9; 1-135-76505-7; 1-280-29015-3; 9786610290154; 0-203-34103-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Collana: Cass series--strategy and history
• Classificazione: 355.02
• Disciplina: 355.033573
• Soggetti: Strategy - History - 20th century; Intervention; Militærpolitik; National sikkerhed; United States Military policy 20th century; United States Politics and government 20th century; United States Foreign relations 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Dedications; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The Us Army And American Strategic Culture; 2. The Vietnam War And The Us Army; 3. The All-Volunteer Army; 4. Innovation In Us Army Doctrine; 5. The Influence Of Army Thinking; 6. Interventions: Panama, The Gulf, Somalia; 7. Return To The Gulf; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: US Intervention Policy and Army Innovation examines how the US Army rebuilt itself after the Vietnam War and how this has affected US intervention policy, from the victory of the Gulf War to the failure of Somalia, the Bosnian and Kosovo interventions and the use of force post 9/11.Richard Lock-Pullan analyzes the changes in US military ; intervention strategy by examining two separate issues: the nature of the US Army as it rebuilt itself after the Vietnam War, and the attempts by the US to establish criteria for future military interventions. He first argues that US strategy

Omnium annalium monumenta [[e-book] ] : historical writing and historical evidence in Republican Rome / / edited by Kaj Sandberg, Christopher Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821911603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2018; ©2018
• ISBN: 90-04-35555-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (535 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Historiography of Rome and Its Empire, , 2408-2314 ; ; Volume 2
• Disciplina: 937.02072
• Soggetti: Historiography - Rome; Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C Historiography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Christopher Smith -- The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition -- Fabius Pictor, Ennius and the Origins of Roman Annalistic Historiography / John Rich -- L’“archéologie” de Rome dans les Annales d’Ennius : poetica fabula ou annalium monumentum? / Martine Chassignet -- The Discovery of Numa’s Writings: Roman Sacral Law and the Early Historians / Hans Beck -- Antiquarians and Historians -- On the Edges of History / Christopher Smith -- Diligentissumus investigator antiquitatis? ‘Antiquarianism’ and Historical Evidence between Republican Rome and the Early Modern Republic of Letters / Duncan MacRae -- Inspired Leaders versus Emerging Nations: Varro’s and Cicero’s Views on Early Rome / Vera Binder -- Which One is the Historian? A Neglected Problem in the Study of Roman Historiography / Tim Cornell -- History ; and Oratory -- How Much History did the Romans Know? Historical References in Cicero’s Speeches to the People / Francisco Pina Polo -- Ciceronian Constructions of the Oratorical Past / Henriette van der Blom -- Cicero, Documents and the Implications for History / Andrew Riggsby -- The Literary Construction of History -- Livy’s Battle in the Forum between Roman Monuments and Greek Literature / Dennis Pausch -- Echi dalle tragedie tebane nelle storie di Roma arcaica / Marianna Scapini -- Figures of Memory. Aulus Vibenna, Valerius Publicola and Mezentius between History and Legend / Massimiliano Di Fazio -- History and Monuments -- Monumenta, Documenta, Memoria: Remembering and Imagining the Past in Late Republican Rome / Kaj Sandberg -- Visibility Matters. Notes on Archaic Monuments and Collective Memory in Mid-Republican Rome / Gabriele Cifani -- Aedificare, res damnosissima. Building and Historiography in Livy, Books 5–6 / Seth Bernard -- Memoria by Multiplication: The Cornelii Scipiones in Monumental Memory / Karl-J. Hölkeskamp -- Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing Civic Memory in Late Republican Rome / Penelope J. E. Davies.
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume brings a variety of approaches to the problem of how the Romans conceived of their history, what were the mechanisms for their preservation of the past, and how did the Romans come to write about their past. Building on important recent work in historiography, and the recent memory turn, the authors consider the practicalities of transmission, literary and generic influences, and the role of the city of Rome in preserving and transmitting memories of the past. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of the role history played in Roman life, and the kinds of evidence which could be deployed in constructing Roman history.