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Cover of Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide

Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide

Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017

For the past decade, suicidal behavior in military and veteran populations has been a constant feature in the news and in the media, with suicide rates among active duty American military personnel reaching their highest level in almost three decades. Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide reviews...
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Long Gray Lines

The Southern Military School Tradition, 1839-1915

by Rod Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003

Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas A&M, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms,...
Cover of Guide to Religion and the Military: Chaplains, Command Climate, Freedom of Religious Expression, Christian Evangelicalism, Secular Pluralism, Catholic Church and Vietnam, Catholic Just War Tradition
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique compilation of thirteen military documents provides special insight into the role of religion in the military and wars. Contents include: Religion and the Military: A Growing Ethical Dilemma * Combatant Commander...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

The role, status, and treatment of women is one of the major issues confronting the military today. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the magnitude of concerns, the sources of problems, how issues might best be addressed, and the future for women in the armed services. It is based on...
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by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

This book offers a detailed examination of the professional military education system in the United States, from a critical, insider's perspective. The mission of America’s war colleges is to educate senior military officers in both the ways of war and the defence of peace. But are these...
Cover of Complex Peace Operations and Civil-Military Relations
by Robert Egnell
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009

This book explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. Recent operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of grand failures to enforce peace and to promote democracy and development through international interventions....
Cover of The Politics of Naval Innovation: Studies of Historical Cases of How Technologically Advanced Systems Went From the Drawing Board to the Fleet, Tomahawk Cruise Missile, AEGIS Combat System
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines how innovations in technology and doctrine can help trigger revolutions in military affairs by studying historical cases of how technologically advanced systems found their way from the drawing...
Cover of The Nature of Russia's Threat to NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence in the Baltic States: Comprehensive Analysis of Russian Military Forces, Strategy, and Recent Performance in Ukraine and Syria
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018

This important late 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. In the wake of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and subsequent military support to separatists fighting in Eastern Ukraine, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...
Cover of Culture Wars: Air Force Culture and Civil - Military Relations - USAF History on Dealing with National Policy, Case Studies of Operation Desert Storm and Northern/Southern Watch, Decade of Quasi-War
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

This excellent report, professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, studies American civil-military relations at the level of an individual military service and considers the impact of the Air Force's organizational culture on its civil-military relationship....
Cover of Press Coverage of the Persian Gulf War: Historical Perspectives and Questions of Policy Beyond the Shadow of Vietnam - Censorship, World War I and II, Korea, Tet Offensive, Sidle Commission
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book examines American media coverage of military operations. Widely held views of military-press relations in the United States rest upon an incomplete image of the past. This became overwhelmingly evident...
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Warriors and Politicians

US Civil-Military Relations under Stress

by Charles A. Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006

With historical case studies ranging from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq, this new book shows how and why the US military is caught between two civilian masters – the President and Congress – in responding to the challenges of warfighting, rearmament, and transformation. Charles...
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The Diary of Terror

Ethiopia 1974 to 1991

by Dawit Shifaw
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012

This book is about the rise of a military dictatorship that overthrew an African kingdom that ruled the country for centuries. Emperor Haile Sellassie claimed to be King of Kings, the lion of the tribe of Judea, crumbled before both his peoples who hated and who worshipped him. The military that overthrew...
Cover of Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017

This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic. Outbreaks of epidemics like Ebola trigger difficult ethical challenges for civilian and military health care personnel. This book offers theoretical reflections combined with reports...
Cover of Stability Economics: The Economic Foundations of Security in Post-conflict Environments - Iraq and Afghanistan, Shari'a Compliant Finance, Odierno, Petraeus, Shining Path Guerrillas
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

In the years after invading Iraq and Afghanistan, the US military realized that it had a problem: How does a military force set the economic conditions for security success? This problem was certainly not novel—the military had confronted it before in such diverse locations as Grenada, Haiti, Bosnia,...
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