LEADER 04106oam 22004814a 450 001 9910552993603321 005 20230621140312.0 035 $a(CKB)5590000000897782 035 $a(OCoLC)1305910329 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100134 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/79502 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000897782 100 $a20211005d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCreating the Modern Army$eCitizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919?1939 /$fWilliam J. Woolley 210 $d2022 210 1$cUniversity Press of Kansas,$d[2022]$aLawrence, Kansas : 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aStudies in civil-military relations series 311 $a0-7006-3302-2 327 $aThe quest for a national military policy, 1878-1920 -- Creating the citizen Army, 1919-1925 -- Disappointment and disillusionment : the Army and the nation, 1920-1925 -- The heart of the policy creating the new citizen Army -- The Army in the era of stability, 1926-1929 : creating the branches -- Stabilizing the relationship : the Army and the nation in the era of stability -- The civilian components in the era of stability -- Creating orthodoxy and predictability : professional military education in the Army, 1919-1939 -- Building a throne for the queen : infantry branch organization and branch culture in the 1920s -- Branch stagnation : American field artillery in the interwar period -- End of the big guns : mission and branch identity crisis in the coastal artillery, 1919-1939 -- Mechanizing the Army, 1930-1939 -- The Army besieged : the Army and the nation in the decade of the Depression, 1930-1939 -- Stability amidst crisis : the civilian components in the 1930s -- Modern weapons and traditional tactics, the infantry and tanks, 1920-1939 -- Mounts or motors? The cavalry and the response to mechanization, 1920-1939. 330 $a"The modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. After World War I, officers in leadership positions were increasingly convinced that building a new army could not take place as a series of random developments, but was an enterprise that had to be guided by a distinct military policy that enjoyed the support of the nation. William J. Woolley argues that the key to the modernization of the army in this period was the National Defense Act of 1920, which provided a blueprint for desired change and demonstrates that the transformation of the army was due to four elements: the creation of the civilian components of the new army (the Citizen's Military Training Camps (CMTC), the Officer Reserve Corps (ORC), the National Guard, and the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)); the development of the branches as the structural basis for organizing the army as well as creating the means to educate new officers and soldiers about their craft and to socialize them into an army culture; the creation of a rationalized and progressive system of professional military education; and the initial mechanization of the combat branches"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCivil-military relations$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00862889 606 $aArmed Forces$xOrganization$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01351846 606 $aCivil-military relations$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aHistory. 610 $astudies in civil military relations series;citizen army;national guard;officer reserve corps;ROTC;infantry cavalry;field artillery;coast artillery;tanks;mechanized warfare;army general staff chief of staff 615 0$aCivil-military relations. 615 0$aArmed Forces$xOrganization. 615 0$aCivil-military relations$xHistory 676 $a355.00973 700 $aWoolley$b William J.$01215980 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552993603321 996 $aCreating the Modern Army$92809863 997 $aUNINA