LEADER 00855cam0 22002773 450 001 SOB008283 005 20201022082816.0 100 $a20040211d3200 |||||ita|0103 ba 101 $aita 102 $aIT 200 1 $aHonoré Daumier$fRobert Rey 205 $a2.ed. 210 $aMilano$cGarzanti$d32 cm 215 $a158 p.$cill.$d32 cm 225 2 $agrandi pittori 410 1$1001LAEC00017057$12001 $aI *grandi pittori 700 1$aRey$b, Robert$3AF00007562$4070$0484376 801 0$aIT$bUNISOB$c20201022$gRICA 850 $aUNISOB 852 $aUNISOB$j700|Coll|12|K$m24217 912 $aSOB008283 940 $aM 102 Monografia moderna SBN 941 $aM 957 $a700|Coll|12|K$b000009$gSI$d24217$rACQUISTO$1catenacci$2UNISOB$3UNISOB$420180518090124.0$520180518090134.0$6catenacci 996 $aHonoré Daumier$9953885 997 $aUNISOB LEADER 05049nam 2200445zu 450 001 9910870868303321 005 20250905110032.0 035 $a(CKB)32613073900041 035 $a(Perlego)3898504 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7235067 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7235067 035 $a(OCoLC)1376195295 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010158240 035 $a(NjHacI)9932613073900041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932613073900041 100 $a20240501d2023 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCreating the Modern Army $eCitizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919-1939 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cUniversity Press of Kansas$d2023 210 1$aLawrence, Kansas :$cUniversity Press of Kansas,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (395 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Civil-Military Relations Series 311 08$a9780700633036 327 $aIntro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION The Quest for a National Military Policy, 1878-1920 -- PART I Creating the Citizen Army, 1919-1925 -- CHAPTER 1 Disappointment and Disillusionment: The Army and the Nation, 1920-1925 -- CHAPTER 2 The Heart of the Policy: Creating the New Citizen Army -- PART II The Army in the Era of Stability, 1926-1929: Creating the Branches -- CHAPTER 3 Stabilizing the Relationship: The Army and the Nation in the Era of Stability -- CHAPTER 4 The Civilian Components in the Era of Stability -- CHAPTER 5 Creating Orthodoxy and Predictability: Professional Military Education in the Army, 1919-1939 -- CHAPTER 6 Building a Throne for the Queen: Infantry Branch Organization and Branch Culture in the 1920s -- CHAPTER 7 Branch Stagnation: American Field Artillery, 1919-1939 -- CHAPTER 8 End of the Big Guns: Mission and Branch Identity Crisis in the Coast Artillery, 1919-1939 -- PART III Mechanizing the Army, 1930-1939 -- CHAPTER 9 The Army Besieged: The Army and the Nation in the Decade of the Depression, 1930-1939 -- CHAPTER 10 Stability amid Crisis: The Civilian Components in the 1930s -- CHAPTER 11 Modern Weapons and Traditional Tactics: The Infantry and Tanks, 1919-1939 -- CHAPTER 12 Mounts or Motors? The Cavalry and Its Response to Mechanization, 1919-1939 -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in Citations -- Notes -- Bibliography. 330 8 $aThe modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior to 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. In 1920, Congress accepted that idea and embodied it in the National Defense Act. In doing so it also accepted army leadership's idea of entrusting America's security to a unique force, the Citizen Army, and tasked the nation's Regular Army with developing and training that force. Creating the Modern Army details the efforts of the Regular Army to do so in the face of austerity budgets and public apathy while simultaneously responding to the challenges posed by the new and revolutionary mechanization of warfare.In this book Woolley focuses on the development of what he sees as the four major features of the modernized army that emerged due to these efforts. These included the creation of the civilian components of the new army: the Citizen's Military Training Camps, the Officer Reserve Corps, the National Guard, and the Reserve Officer Training Corps; the development of the four major combat 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. Woolley also points out how the development of the army in this period was heavily influenced by policies and actions of the president and Congress.The US Army that fought World War II was clearly a citizen army whose leadership was largely trained within the framework of the institutions of the army created by the National Defense Act. The way that army fought the war may have been less decisive and more costly in terms of lives and money than it should have been. But that army won the war and therefore validated the citizen army as the US way of war. This book is published as part of the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 410 0$aStudies in Civil-Military Relations Series 607 $aUnited States$xHistory 676 $a973 700 $aWoolley$b William J.$01215980 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910870868303321 996 $aCreating the Modern Army$92809863 997 $aUNINA