05845nam 22006731 450 991045376700332120200520144314.00-19-989039-0(CKB)2550000001159466(StDuBDS)AH25858286(SSID)ssj0001041755(PQKBManifestationID)12462171(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041755(PQKBWorkID)11050005(PQKB)10953147(MiAaPQ)EBC1561210(Au-PeEL)EBL1561210(CaPaEBR)ebr10796871(CaONFJC)MIL542670(OCoLC)862745777(EXLCZ)99255000000115946620121116h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrWhen soldiers fall how Americans have confronted combat losses from World War I to Afghanistan /Steven CaseyOxford ;New York :Oxford University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (336 pages )illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-989038-2 1-306-11419-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Censorship and the first casualty controversy: World War I, 1917-1918 -- Bad news in the "good war": World War II, 1941-1943 -- The price of victory: World War II, 1944-1945 -- Partisanship and the police action: the Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Vietnam: the escalating war, 1961-1968 -- Vietnam: de-escalation and defeat, 1969-1989 -- Gulf Wars: Iraq and Afghanistan, 1990-2011.When Soldiers Fall traces the history of American combat losses and the ways in which the government has reported casualties from WWI to the current War on Terror.The extent to which combat casualties influence the public's support for war is one of the most frequently and fiercely debated subjects in current American life and has cast an enormous shadow over both the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. The common assumption, based largely on U.S. experience in past wars, is that the public is in some way casualty averse or casualty shy, and that as losses increase its support for a war will inexorably decline. Yet this assumption has beenadopted as conventional wisdom without any awareness of one of the most important dimensions of the issue: how has the public become aware of the casualties sustained during particular wars? To what extent has the government tried to manipulate or massage the figures? When and why have these officialfigures been challenged by opportunistic political opponents or aggressive scoop-seeking reporters? As Steven Casey demonstrates, at key moments in most wars what the public actually receives is not straightforward and accurate casualty totals, but an enormous amount of noise based on a mixture of suppression, suspicion, and speculation. This book aims to correct this gap in information by showing precise what casualty figures the government announced during its various wars, the timing of these announcements, and any spin officials may have placed upon these, using a range of hithertountapped primary documents. Among the nuggets he has uncovered is that during World War I the media depended on Axis figures and that the Army and Navy did not announce casualty figures for an entire year during World War II. Organized chronologically, the book addresses the two world wars, the limitedwars in Korea and Vietnam, and the recent conflicts that are part of the War on Terror. Using sources such as the private military command papers of Generals Patton, MacArthur, and Westmoreland, and previously unopened New York Times archives, it offers the first analysis of how the U.S. government has publicized combat casualties during these wars, and how these official announcements have been debated and disputed by other voices in the polity. Casey discusses factors such as changes ofpresidential administration, the improvement of technology, the sending of war correspondents to cover multiple conflicts, and the increasing ability to identify bodies. Casey recreates the complicated controversies that have surrounded key battles, and in doing so challenges the simplicity of theoft-repeated conventional wisdom that " By integrating military and political history, he presents a totally new interpretation of U.S. domestic propaganda since 1917, filling a major gap left by a spate of recent books. Finally, it provides a fresh and engaging new perspective on some of the biggest battles in recent American history, including the Meuse-Argonne, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, China's intervention in the Korean War, the TetOffensive, and the recent campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.This book should speak to the military, political, and media history markets, and it should also reach a wider audience that is debating contemporary casualty figures.Casualty aversion (Military science)United StatesPublic opinionUnited StatesMass media and warUnited StatesWar casualtiesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWar casualtiesUnited StatesHistory21st centuryWar casualtiesUnited StatesPublic opinionElectronic books.Casualty aversion (Military science)Public opinionMass media and warWar casualtiesHistoryWar casualtiesHistoryWar casualtiesPublic opinion.355.4/22Casey Steven475870MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453767003321When soldiers fall2223777UNINA01685nam 2200517I 450 991070969450332120180518104912.0(CKB)5470000002471287(OCoLC)1035948229(EXLCZ)99547000000247128720180518j198306 ua 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAdvanced air revitalization system testing final report /D.B. Heppner, T.M. Hallick, F.H. SchubertMoffett Field, California :National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration, Ames Research Center,June 1983.1 online resource (v, 65 pages) illustrationsNASA/CR ;166540Includes Appendix 1 and Appendix 2."June, 1983.""Life Systems, Incorporated."Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-65).Advanced air revitalization system testing Partial pressurenasatCarbon dioxidenasatAir purificationnasatCoolantsnasatHumiditynasatPartial pressure.Carbon dioxide.Air purification.Coolants.Humidity.Heppner D. B.1412183Hallick T. M.Schubert F. H.Ames Research Center,Life Systems, Inc.GPOGPOBOOK9910709694503321Advanced air revitalization system testing3505030UNINA