For the last forty years, the US Army has assigned its soldiers on an individual basis -- not as members of a unit. Supporters of this personnel system point out its clockwork efficiency, its economy, and its mirroring of replacement needs in time of war. Not all observers, however, believe that such a personnel system serves us as well as it ...
Examines six examples of military disintegration: the India Mutiny, 1857; the French Army mutinies, 1917; the depredations following the British siege of San Sebastian, 1813; the surrender of the US 106th Infantry Division, 1944; the Sand Creek Indian Massacre, 1864; and the My Lai massacre, 1968.
This unique volume draws together a variety of essays in the field of contemporary combat psychiatry. Contributions are included from specialists in Britain, Canada, Egypt, France, Israel, Nigeria, the United States, and West Germany. The authors represent a variety of disciplines--including psychiatry, psychology, neurobiology, history, and ...
One of the perils for military planners in a high-tech world is to be taken in by the destructiveness of modern weapons and to give in to the currently popular theory that modern war will last for days or weeks rather than months or years -- in short, to envision a world where technologies, not people, dominate war. We can ill afford to dismiss ...
William Darryl Henderson maintains that despite highly successful marketing efforts to sell the image of a new quality army to the American public, the Congress, and to the U.S. Army itself, the Army has, in fact, not risen above mediocre performance levels. Henderson dispels the myth of today's quality army, and explores the long buried and ...
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