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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816848903321

Autore

Kastenberg Joshua E. <1967->

Titolo

To raise and discipline an army : Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General's Office and the realignment of civil and military relations in World War I / / Joshua E. Kastenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dekalb, [Illinois] : , : Northern Illinois University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5017-5804-7

1-60909-213-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

343.73/0143

Soggetti

Judge advocates - United States

Civil-military relations - United States - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Law and legislation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Enoch Crowder and the Wilson presidency -- Staffing and directing the Judge Advocate General's Department: duties and discipline -- The conscripting and training of a disciplined force -- Judge advocates in the AEF -- International law and administrative duties in war and after the Armistice -- Political oversight of military discipline -- Courts-martial, concerns over subversion, and conscientious objection -- Courts-martial and discipline controversy: 1918-1920 -- Conclusion: return to normalcy and a forgotten history.

Sommario/riassunto

Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General's Office—the legal arm of the United States Army—from thirteen uniformed attorneys to more than four hundred. Crowder's recruitment of some of the nation's leading legal scholars, as well as former congressmen and state supreme court judges, helped legitimize President Woodrow Wilson's wartime military and legal policies. As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army numbered about 120,000 soldiers. The Judge Advocate General's Office was



instrumental in extending the military's reach into the everyday lives of citizens to enable the construction of an army of more than four million soldiers by the end of the war. Under Crowder's leadership, the office was responsible for the creation and administration of the Selective Service Act, under which thousands of men were drafted into military service, as well as enforcement of the Espionage Act and wartime prohibition. In this first published history of the Judge Advocate General's Office between the years of 1914 and 1922, Joshua Kastenberg examines not only courts-martial, but also the development of the laws of war and the changing nature of civil-military relations. The Judge Advocate General's Office influenced the legislative and judicial branches of the government to permit unparalleled assertions of power, such as control over local policing functions and the economy. Judge advocates also altered the nature of laws to recognize a person's diminished mental health as a defense in criminal trials, influenced the assertion of US law overseas, and affected the evolving nature of the law of war. This groundbreaking study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers of US history, as well as military, legal, and political historians.  



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299781903321

Autore

Spokoiny Vladimir

Titolo

Basics of Modern Mathematical Statistics / / by Vladimir Spokoiny, Thorsten Dickhaus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-642-39909-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 296 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Springer Texts in Statistics, , 1431-875X

Disciplina

519.5

Soggetti

Statistics 

Mathematical statistics

Statistical Theory and Methods

Probability and Statistics in Computer Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Basic notions -- Parameter Estimation for an i.i.d. Model -- Regression Estimation --  Estimation in Linear Models -- Bayes Estimation -- Testing a Statistical Hypothesis -- Testing in Linear Models -- Some other Testing Methods --  Deviation Probability for Quadratic Forms.

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook provides a unified and self-contained presentation of the main approaches to and ideas of mathematical statistics. It collects the basic mathematical ideas and tools needed as a basis for more serious studies or even independent research in statistics. The majority of existing textbooks in mathematical statistics follow the classical asymptotic framework. Yet, as modern statistics has changed rapidly in recent years, new methods and approaches have appeared. The emphasis is on finite sample behavior, large parameter dimensions, and model misspecifications. The present book provides a fully self-contained introduction to the world of modern mathematical statistics, collecting the basic knowledge, concepts and findings needed for doing further research in the modern theoretical and applied statistics. This textbook is primarily intended for graduate and postdoc students and young researchers who are interested in modern statistical methods.