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Record Nr.

UNINA9910715076503321

Autore

Hope Gregory C.

Titolo

"Army training, sir" : the impact of the World War I experience on the evolution of training doctrine in the US Army / / Gregory C. Hope

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas : , : Army University Press, , 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 111 pages)

Collana

Art of war papers

Disciplina

355.50973

Soggetti

Military education - United States - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Influence

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Military education

Parliamentary practice

History

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 2021"--Title page verso.

"A US Army Command and General Staff College Press book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

"The American Army's mobilization for World War I was fraught with difficulties, resulting in a number of failings that produced a capable but flawed expeditionary force. The traditional interpretation of army training during that conflict was lackluster as it produced combat units that lacked critical capabilities. The experience of learning how to train and how to write training doctrine produced positive results that have been largely overlooked by historians. This study examines the status of training in the pre-war army, to include both existing doctrine and institutional management organizations. It then chronicles the wartime experience and traces the evolution of training doctrine and practices during the war. It concludes by looking at the immediate post-war years to determine what lasting impacts the wartime experiences had on training doctrine and management. Overall, this study concludes that the training effort during World War I had significant long-term



benefits for the army, producing the foundation of the army's training practices through World War II"--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794040203321

Autore

Shams Tahseen

Titolo

Here, there, and elsewhere : the making of immigrant identities in a globalized world / / Tahseen Shams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-5036-1284-8

9781503612846

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Globalization in Everyday Life

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Muslims - Political activity

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 SOCIETIES INTERCONNECTED -- 2 BEYOND HERE AND THERE -- 3 GLOBAL DIMENSIONS OF HOMELAND TIES -- 4 THE GEOPOLITICS OF BEING “GOOD MUSLIMS” IN AMERICA -- 5 “MUSLIMS IN DANGER” BOTH HERE AND ELSEWHERE -- 6 TAKING PRECAUTIONS HERE FOR “MUSLIMS IN CONFLICT” ELSEWHERE -- 7 HERE, THERE, AND ELSEWHERE -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and experience the interconnectedness of societies—not only the societies of origin and destination, but also, the societies in places beyond. Tahseen Shams posits a new concept for thinking about these places that are neither the immigrants' homeland nor hostland—the "elsewhere." Drawing on rich ethnographic data, interviews, and analysis of the social media activities of South Asian Muslim Americans, Shams uncovers how different dimensions of the immigrants' ethnic and religious identities



connect them to different elsewheres in places as far-ranging as the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. Yet not all places in the world are elsewheres. How a faraway foreign land becomes salient to the immigrant's sense of self depends on an interplay of global hierarchies, homeland politics, and hostland dynamics. Referencing today's 24-hour news cycle and the ways that social media connects diverse places and peoples at the touch of a screen, Shams traces how the homeland, hostland, and elsewhere combine to affect the ways in which immigrants and their descendants understand themselves and are understood by others.