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Buzzanco, Robert. "Masters of war? : military criticism, strategy, and civil- military relations during the Vietnam war /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487844485899365.
Full textCauley, Catherine S. "Queering the WAC: The World War II Military Experience of Queer Women." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2062.
Full textOrativskyi, Volodymyr. "The principles of war reconsidered." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA501474.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): Arquilla, John. "June 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 13, 2009. DTIC Identifiers: Principles of war, information age, contemporary militaries. Author(s) subject terms: Principles of war, Information Age, military history, military doctrine, military strategy. Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-130). Also available in print.
Tsui, C. W. David. "Chinese military intervention in the Korean War." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286810.
Full textHarari, Yuval Noah. "Renaissance military memoirs : war, history, and identity, 1450-1600 /." Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392083492.
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Willey, Amanda Mae. "Fashioning femininity for war: material culture and gender performance in the WAC and WAVES during World War II." Diss., Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/20556.
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Sue Zschoche
In 1942, the U.S. Army and Navy announced the creation of their respective women’s military services: the WAAC/WAC and the WAVES. Although American women had served alongside the military in past conflicts, the creation of women’s military corps caused uproar in American society. Placing women directly into the armed services called into question cultural expectations about “masculinity” and “femininity.” Thus, the women’s corps had to be justified to the public in accordance with American cultural assumptions regarding proper gender roles. “Fashioning Femininity for War: Material Culture and Gender Performance in the WAC and WAVES during World War II” focuses on the role of material culture in communicating a feminine image of the WAC and WAVES to the American public as well as the ways in which servicewomen engaged material culture to fashion and perform a feminine identity compatible with contemporary understandings of “femininity.” Material culture served as a mechanism to resolve public concerns regarding both the femininity and the function of women in the military. WAC and WAVES material culture linked their wearers with stereotyped characteristics specifically related to contemporary meanings of “femininity” celebrated by American society, while at the same time associating them with military organizations doing vital war work. Ultimately, the WAVES were more successful in their manipulations of material culture than the WAC, communicating both femininity and function in a way that was complementary to the established gender hierarchy. Therefore, the WAVES enjoyed a prestigious position in the mind of the American public. This dissertation also contributes to the ongoing historiographical debate regarding World War II as a turning point for women’s liberation, arguing that while the seeds of women’s liberation were sown in women’s wartime activities, those same wartime women were firmly convinced that their rightful place was in the private rather than the public sphere. The war created an opportunity to reevaluate gender roles but it would take some time before those reevaluations bore fruit.
Williams, J. Barrie. "Re-Education of German Prisoners of War in the United States during World War II." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625841.
Full textJones, Gregory R. "They Fought the War Together| Southeastern Ohio's Soldiers and Their Families During the Civil War." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618882.
Full textSoldiers from southeastern Ohio and their families fought the Civil War (1861–1865) in a reciprocal relationship, sustaining one another throughout the course of the conflict. The soldiers needed support from their families at home. The families, likewise, relied upon the constant contact via letters for assurance that the soldiers were surviving and doing well in the ranks. This dissertation qualitatively examines the correspondence between soldiers and their families in southeastern Ohio, developing six major themes of analysis including early war patriotism, war at the front, war at home, political unrest at home, common religion, and the shared cost of the war. The source base for the project included over one thousand letters and over two hundred and fifty newspaper articles, all of which contribute to a sense of the mood of southeastern Ohioans as they struggled to fight the war together. The conclusions of the dissertation show that soldiers and their families developed a cooperative relationship throughout the war. This dissertation helps to provide a corrective to the overly romantic perspective on the Civil War that it was fought between divided families. Rather, Civil War soldiers and their families fought the war in shared suffering and in support of one another.
Gray, Corey Patrick. "Industrial modernization and the American Civil War." Thesis, The Florida State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1600045.
Full textWhat explains why and how America fought the civil war? This thesis argues that industrial modernization can be a useful analytical tool for understanding the causes of the American Civil War. The argument is developed by analyzing the social, political, and military events of the era through the lens of industrialization. This study will show that the American Industrial Revolution lay at the core of the social, political, and military events that shaped this great conflict. Understanding the causes of human events is as critical as understanding their effects. By grasping the root causes of the war, we can better understand how and why it was fought. This analysis of American society, American politics, and the country's military establishment will provide the rich context needed to apprehend the reasons for the American Civil war beyond the dichotomy of slavery and economics.
Jameson, Sarah K. "American Soldiers' Use of Weaponry in World War I." TopSCHOLAR®, 2016. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1599.
Full textWelch, Michael. "Military science and military history : Bloch, Fuller, Henderson and the Royal United Service Institution (1830-1901)." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389866.
Full textProctor, Patrick E. "The Vietnam War debate and the Cold War consensus." Diss., Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18665.
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Donald Mrozek
Both Presidents Johnson and Nixon used the ideology of military containment of Communism to justify U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. Until 1968, opponents of this intervention attacked the ideology of containment or its application to Vietnam. In 1968, opponents of the war switched tactics and began to focus instead on the President’s credibility. These arguments quickly became the dominant critique of the war through its end and were ultimately successful in ending it. The Gulf of Tonkin incident and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution were central to the change of opposition strategy in 1968. For Johnson, the Gulf of Tonkin incident had provided the political impetus to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which the administration used as an insurance policy against Congressional dissent. For Congressional dissenters in 1968, inconsistencies in Johnson’s version of the Gulf of Tonkin incident allowed them to undermine the Resolution as a weapon against Congress. For the American people, revelations about the administration’s dishonesty during the incident simply added to grave doubts that Americans already had about Johnson’s credibility; the American people lost confidence in Johnson, ending his Presidency. The dramatic success of this new strategy—attacking the administration’s credibility—encouraged other opponents to follow suit, permanently altering the framework of debate over the war. This change in opposition strategy in 1968 had a number of important consequences. First, this change in rhetoric ultimately ended the war. To sustain his credibility against relentless attack, President Nixon repeatedly withdrew troops to prove to the American people he was ending the war. Nixon ran out of troops to withdraw and had to accept an unfavorable peace. Second, after the war, this framework for debate of military interventions established—between advocates using the ideology of containment and opponents attacking the administration’s credibility—would reemerge nearly every time an administration contemplated military intervention through the end of the Cold War. Finally, because opponents of military intervention stopped challenging containment in 1968, the American public continued to accept the precepts of containment and the Cold War consensus survived until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Varble, Neil. "The Wehrmarcht: Soldiers and Germans During the Second World War." TopSCHOLAR®, 2007. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/384.
Full textAngeles, Jose Amiel. "As Our Might Grows Less: The Philippine-American War in Context." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17888.
Full textAtwood, Anthony. "A State of War: Florida from 1939 to 1945." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/777.
Full textLea-O'Mahoney, Michael James. "The navy in the English Civil War." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4078.
Full textCordulack, Evan. "Consumer Under Fire: The Military Consumer and the Vietnam War." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626481.
Full textReimer, Torsten F. "Eine Studie in Kriegführung : eine Vorstellung des H-War Military History Network." Universität Potsdam, 2001. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/2869/.
Full textFritz, Stephen. "Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://amzn.com/0813134161.
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de, la Garza Andrew. "Mughals at War: Babur, Akbar and the Indian Military Revolution, 1500 - 1605." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274894811.
Full textBecker, Katherine A. "THE SWISS WAY OF WAR: A STUDY ON THE TRANSMISSION AND CONTINUITY OF CLASSICAL AND MILITARY IDEAS AND PRACTICE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1244264028.
Full textKaplan, Richard E. "Teaching adolescents about war." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/791.
Full textOKane, John F. "The perfect sturm innovation and the origins of Blitzkrieg in World War I /." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/06Dec%5FOKane.pdf.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): Kalev Sepp. "December 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-87). Also available in print.
Esser, Michael Thomas. "FIGHTING A "CRUEL AND SAVAGE FOE": COUNTERINSURGENCY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES FROM THE INDIAN WARS TO THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR (1899-1902)." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/562935.
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Many scholars have written about the counterinsurgency phase of the Philippine- American War (1899-1902). Military historians often downplayed the impact of human rights abuses, while emphasizing the success of the U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency instead. In contrast, social historians frequently focused on human rights abuses at the expense of understanding the U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency efforts. Unlike the majority of earlier works, this thesis unifies military, social, and legal history to primarily answer these questions: what significant factors led U.S. soldiers to commit human rights abuses during the war, and at what cost did the U.S. pacify the Filipino rebellion? The war was successfully waged at the tactical, operational, and strategic level, but wavered at the grand strategic level.1 This study argues that racism, ambiguous rules and regulations, and a breakdown of discipline contributed to U.S. soldiers committing human rights abuses against Filipinos during the counterinsurgency. Primary sources from the perspectives of American policy makers, military leaders, and common soldiers—in addition to documents on U.S. Army regulations and its past traditions—reveal a comprehensive story of what happened during this conflict. The U.S. Army’s abuse were not a historical anomaly, but a growing trend extending from nineteenth century conflicts against other races. The counterinsurgency revealed that beneath the stated principles of 1 For the purposes of this thesis, grand strategy is “the direction and use made of any and all of the assets of a security community, including its military instruments, for the purposes of policy as decided by politics.” This differs from the strategic level of war, which is the direction and exclusive use of military forces for the purposes of policy as decided by politics. Finally, the operational level is the level of war where the tasks, decided by strategy, are coordinated and individual units are commanded. These units, in turn, engaging in tactics to achieve operational objectives. Colin S. Gray, The Future of Strategy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015), 29, 47. iii America’s benevolent mission, violent racial underpinnings existed in U.S. desires for global and domestic hegemony. The U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency resulted in a flawed victory, won at the cost of combatants, innocent civilians, and American idealism.
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Erasmus, Aidan. "The sound of war: Apartheid, audibility, and resonance." University of the Western Cape, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6523.
Full textThis study approaches the field of military history with approaches to the study of sound in order to interrogate the concept of war that underpins military historiography as a disciplinary formation. It delineates the notion of the phonographic attitude with which to think about the ways in which technology, war, and the senses coalesce in broader historical writing about war, colonialism, and apartheid in South Africa. In so doing, it suggests that an attention to what it calls the warring motifs is necessary if a reorientation of a reading of war and apartheid away from a politics of deadness is to be achieved. It does so through a methodological approach that attends to various objects in South African historiography that may be attended to differently through an emphasis on the sensorial. These include the state-sponsored Walkman bomb that killed ANC lawyer Bheki Mlangeni, a record produced by artist Roger Lucey in memory of the death of activist Lungile Tabalaza, the supposed whistle or shout that led the indigenous Khoikhoi to victory over the Portuguese in 1510, a lithographic print by William Kentridge named after a radio programme for troops engaged in South Africa’s border war, the bell of sunken troopship SS Mendi, and the first recording of the hymn ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ by intellectual and key figure in a history of nationalism in South Africa, Sol T Plaatje.
Faugstad, Jesse A. "Ike's Last War: Making War Safe for Society." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2019. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/war_and_society_theses/5.
Full textRobertson, Margaret. "Derby, Kansas : cold war boomtown." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4120.
Full textDuncan-Ponvert, Annie. "The Stories of Eleven Who Served in World War II from Lewisburg, Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 2004. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/548.
Full textWintour, Timothy W. "The buck starts here| The Federal Reserve and monetary politics from World War to Cold War, 1941-1951." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618842.
Full textThis dissertation examines the role of the Federal Reserve System in the formation and conduct of American foreign relations between the Second World War and the Korean War. Specifically, it seeks to understand why Fed officials willingly subordinated monetary policy to the priorities of war finance during the former conflict, but actively fought for greater policy autonomy during the latter. Using a constructivist bureaucratic politics approach it examines how American central bankers understood the economic and political implications of both domestic and international policy developments. Drawing upon the perceived lessons of the interwar years, Fed officials believed that economic prosperity was a critical feature of a stable and peaceful international system. At the same time, however, they believed the situation was more complicated than a simplistic causal relationship whereby greater domestic growth resulted in greater international peace and prosperity. Instead, central bankers recognized that events in either the domestic or international political or economic arenas, if improperly handled, threatened to upset the delicate balance between prosperity and peace. The belief in these fundamental interconnections, while often not explicitly expressed, provided a coherent and logical guide to Fed policy, during the era, informing many of its internal debates and positions. This dissertation, therefore, represents the first attempt to understand the role of the American This dissertation examines the role of the Federal Reserve System in the formation and conduct of American foreign relations between the Second World War and the Korean War. Specifically, it seeks to understand why Fed officials willingly subordinated monetary policy to the priorities of war finance during the former conflict, but actively fought for greater policy autonomy during the latter. Using a constructivist bureaucratic politics approach to foreign policy analysis it examines how American central bankers understood the economic and political implications of both domestic and international policy developments. Drawing upon the perceived lessons of the interwar years, Fed officials believed that economic prosperity was a critical feature of a stable and peaceful international system. At the same time, however, they believed the situation was more complicated than a simplistic causal relationship whereby greater domestic growth resulted in greater international peace and prosperity. Instead, central bankers recognized that events in either the domestic or international political or economic arenas, if improperly handled, threatened to upset the delicate balance between prosperity and peace. The belief in these fundamental interconnections, while often not explicitly expressed, provided a coherent and logical guide to Fed policy, during the era, informing many of its internal debates and positions. This dissertation, therefore, represents the first attempt to understand the role of the American Federal Reserve System as an active participant in foreign policy-making, including its involvement in the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, as well as discussions over the 1946 British Loan, and the Marshall Plan. Additionally, this study bridges the gap between domestic and foreign affairs, demonstrating the critical interrelationships between those two areas.
Smith, Rhonda. "Soldiers in War: A Brief History of the United States' Participation in World War I with Special Emphasis on the Kentucky National Guard." TopSCHOLAR®, 1992. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2864.
Full textWacks, Rachel Elise. ""Don't Strip-Tease for Anopheles"| A history of malaria protocols during World War II*." Thesis, The Florida State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1539280.
Full textThis study focuses on the American anti-malaria campaign beginning in 1939. Despite the seemingly endless scholarship on World War II in the past seventy years, little has been written on the malaria epidemic on Guadalcanal. Through extensive archival research, the breadth of the anti-malaria campaign throughout the Pacific is explored as a positive side effect of the malaria epidemic on Guadalcanal in 1942-1943. While most scholars of the Pacific war mention the devastating effects of malaria during the battle for Guadalcanal, few have examined the malaria protocols. Through intensified atabrine discipline, bed nets, mosquito repellant, and an intense cultural war against malaria, the United States military won the war against the anopheles mosquito. Moreover, research and development in the years leading up to war fundamentally changed the way large-scale scientific and medical research is conducted in the United States, including the establishment of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
*1 Color Poster No. 44-PA-686; “Don’t Strip-Tease for Anopheles,” Records of the Office of Government Reports, 1932-1947, Record Group 44; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.
Kelley, Brittany A. ""CRACKS IN THE MELTING POT": NATIVE AMERICANS, MILITARY SERVICE AND CITIZENSHIP." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/501.
Full textCooper, Walter Raymond. "Blood and Treasure: Money and Military Force in Irregular Warfare." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10712.
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Young, Holly. "The John H. Crawford Papers: Letters from the Civil War." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/15.
Full textCornell, Michele Curran. "Romanticizing Patriarchy: Patriotic Romance and American Military Marriages during World War II." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1543848714953129.
Full textWarren, Jason William. "Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in The Great Narragansett War (King Philip’s War), 1675-1676." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313529209.
Full textFletcher, Angharad Mary Kathleen. "Behind the wire: Australian military nursing and internment during World War II." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49858580.
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Sheppard, Philippa. "Tongues of war : studies in the military rhetoric of Shakespeare's English history plays." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240387.
Full textLovelace, Alexander G. "Hughes' War| The Allied High Command through the Eyes of General Everett S. Hughes." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1538534.
Full textThis paper examines the role of Major General Everett S. Hughes during World War II. While Hughes has often been quoted in biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower or George S. Patton Jr. this is the first work to exclusively examine Hughes' contribution to the Allied victory in World War II. The paper argues that Hughes played an important part throughout the war, both in his ability to solve numerous problems and his influence with Eisenhower. It also examines topics such as Hughes' work with the Women's Army Corps, his friendship with Patton, the relationship between Eisenhower and his driver Kay Summersby, along with many other issues afflicting the Allied high command. Finally, this paper argues that Hughes' influence in Eisenhower's Headquarters needs to be taken seriously by those trying to understand the decisions of the U.S. military leadership in Europe during World War II.
Hartwell, Nicole M. "Perceptions of war, savagery and civilisation in Britain, 1801-1899." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fd3428c7-e340-4273-9e6a-b5120c9fa949.
Full textIllston, James Michael. "‘An Entirely Masculine Activity’?Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2915.
Full textNolan, Christopher M. "War and contentment : Dedham, Massachusetts and the military aspect of the War for Independence, 1775-1781." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1045640.
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Ingram, Janessa. "Cold War in the Courtroom: The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the Development of the Cold War." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/371.
Full textBryant, Jacob Owen. "The Invisible Enemy: The Effects of Polio on the American War Effort during World War II, 1941-1945." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1404.
Full textRobinson, Zoe Catherine. "Women in Blue: Women in the US Navy during World War Two." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626315.
Full textHoerl, John David. "Torpedoes and the gun club : the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War II /." Thesis, This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03242009-040815/.
Full textStorring, Adam Lindsay. "Frederick the Great and the meanings of war, 1730-1755." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277782.
Full textLorscheider, Matthew Kilpinen. "Reinventing Long Beach| The fight for space and place in post -Cold War Long Beach, 1990-1999." California State University, Long Beach, 2013.
Find full textLovric, Ivo Mark. "Ghost Wars : the Politics of War Commemoration." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150317.
Full textAuger, Valerie Renee. "Everyday Life of War: A Reflexive Analysis of American Civil War Soldiers in the Military Environment through a Prism of Context, Practice, and Power." W&M ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626390.
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