American Military History Volume 1: The United States Army and

American Military History Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775?1917 (Army Historical Series)

American Military History provides the United States Armyâ€”in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadetsâ€”with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Armyâ€™s history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world warâ€”global warâ€”was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.

Country	USA
Author	Army Center of Military History
Binding	Paperback
Creator	Richard W. Stewart
EAN	9781944961404
IsAdultProduct	0
ISBN	1944961402
Label	St. John's Press
Manufacturer	St. John's Press
NumberOfPages	436
PublicationDate	2016-06-05
Publisher	St. John's Press
Studio	St. John's Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

American Military History Volume 1: The United States Army and the Forging of a Nation, 1775?1917 (Army Historical Series)

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