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100 1 _aWoolley, William J.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCreating the Modern Army :
_bCitizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919–1939 /
_cWilliam J. Woolley.
264 1 _aLawrence, Kansas :
_bUniversity Press of Kansas,
_c[2022]
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2022
264 4 _c©[2022]
300 _a1 online resource (384 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aStudies in civil-military relations series
505 0 _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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
610 1 7 _aUnited States.
_bArmy.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00533532
610 1 6 _aÉtats-Unis.
_bArmy
_xHistoire
_y20e siecle.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_xHistory
_y20th century.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_xOrganization.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_tNational Defense Act of 1920.
650 7 _aArmed Forces
_xOrganization.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01351846
650 7 _aCivil-military relations.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00862889
650 6 _aRelations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire
_zÉtats-Unis
_xHistoire
_y20e siecle.
650 0 _aCivil-military relations
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
651 7 _aUnited States.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204155
655 7 _aHistory.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/100134/
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