Military Communications: a Test for Technology

History

Bergen, John D.

Military

Center of Military History United States Army

From the book's Foreword:The U.S. Army played a key role in the formation and administra- tion of the Manhattan Project, the World War II organization which produced the atomic bombs that not only contributed decisively to ending the war with Japan but also opened the way to a new atomic age. This volume describes how the wartime Army, already faced with the enormous responsibility of mobilizing, training, and deploying vast forces to fight a formidable enemy on far-flung fronts in Europe and the Pacific, responded to the additional task of organizing and administering what was to become the single largest technological project of its kind undertaken up to that time. To meet this challenge, the Army â€” drawing first upon the long-time experience and considerable resources of its Corps of Engineers â€” formed a new engineer organization, the Manhattan District, to take over from the Office of Scientific Research and Development administration of a program earlier established by American and refugee scientists to exploit the military potentialities of atomic energy. Eventually, however, the rapidly expanding project turned for support and services to a much broader spectrum of the Army, including the War Department, the Ordnance Department, the Signal, Medical, Military Police, and Women's Army Corps, the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department General Staff, and the Army Air Forces. These and other Army elements worked together in close collaboration with American industry and science to win what was believed to be a desperate race with Nazi Germany to be first in producing atomic weapons. For both soldiers and civilians this history of the Army's earlier experience in dealing successfully with the then novel problems of atomic science seems likely to offer some instructive parallels for finding appropriate answers to the problems faced in today's ever more technologically complex world.

Manhattan, the Army and the Atomic Bomb (United States Army in World War II)

JONES, Vincent C.

Americas

second of five volumes in the series: US Army in the Korean War

Truce Tent and Fighting Front (Korean War 40th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)

Walter G. Hermes

Center of Military History Publication 30 20. Army Historical Series. 3rd of three volumes by the Center of Military History on the role of federal military forces in domestic disturbances. This volume covers the institutional and other changes that took place during the early postwar years and carries the reader through the civil rights revolution, the disturbances that accompanied the Vietnam War, and the controversies surrounding the Army’s intervention in the race riot in Los Angeles in 1992, which occurred after this volume was essentially completed, and with an extensive bibliography containing a note on various sources used.

Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992

Paul J. Scheips

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT  PRODUCT-- OVERSTOCK  SALE --Significantly reduced list price  Mary C. Gillett's fourth and final volume The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941, provides a long-needed in-depth analysis of the department's struggle to maintain the health and fighting ability of the nation's soldiers during both World War I—a conflict of unexpected proportions and violence—and the years that preceded World War II. In 1917, unprepared as a result of the widespread conviction that to prepare for war is to encourage its outbreak, the Medical Department faced confusion exacerbated by a shortage of both equipment and trained personnel. While bringing to bear knowledge of disease and disease prevention gained in the years after the Spanish-American War, it redesigned and developed its approach to evacuation; struggled to limit the damage to health and effectiveness caused by poison gas, an unfamiliar and deadly weapon; worked to devise ways to limit the suffering and deaths from gas gangrene; began its research into the unique problems of aviators; and desperately tried but failed to control the 1918 influenza pandemic, leaving behind a mystery concerning this disease that is yet to be completely solved. As Gillett's volume reveals, budget cutting and the popular conviction that there would never be another war as horrible as World War I initially retarded all efforts by department leaders to organize for a major conflict during the interwar period. With the nation eased into accepting the likelihood of war by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Medical Department for the first time in its history was able to prepare, albeit to a limited degree, for war before the first gun was fired. In today's arena, The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941, has a far-reaching application for all officers responsible for the health of their soldiers. Related products:World War I resources collection  can be found here:  https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-i Other products produced by the U.S. Army, Center of Military History can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1061  

The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941 (Army Historical)

Biographies & Memoirs

Gillett, Mary C.

Leaders & Notable People

NOTE: NO  FURTHER DISCOUNT  FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT -- OVERSTOCK  SALE--Significantly reduced list price  Mary C. Gillett's fourth and final volume The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941, provides a long-needed in-depth analysis of the department's struggle to maintain the health and fighting ability of the nation's soldiers during both World War I—a conflict of unexpected proportions and violence—and the years that preceded World War II. In 1917, unprepared as a result of the widespread conviction that to prepare for war is to encourage its outbreak, the Medical Department faced confusion exacerbated by a shortage of both equipment and trained personnel. While bringing to bear knowledge of disease and disease prevention gained in the years after the Spanish-American War, it redesigned and developed its approach to evacuation; struggled to limit the damage to health and effectiveness caused by poison gas, an unfamiliar and deadly weapon; worked to devise ways to limit the suffering and deaths from gas gangrene; began its research into the unique problems of aviators; and desperately tried but failed to control the 1918 influenza pandemic, leaving behind a mystery concerning this disease that is yet to be completely solved.As Gillett's volume reveals, budget cutting and the popular conviction that there would never be another war as horrible as World War I initially retarded all efforts by department leaders to organize for a major conflict during the interwar period. With the nation eased into accepting the likelihood of war by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Medical Department for the first time in its history was able to prepare, albeit to a limited degree, for war before the first gun was fired. In today's arena, The Army Medical Department, 1917–1941, has a far-reaching application for all officers responsible for the health of their soldiers. Related products:World War I resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/us-military-history/battles-wars/world-war-i Other products produced by the U.S. Army, Center of  Military History can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1061

Surging South of Baghdad is the first in-depth study of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq during the troop surge. Dale Andrade examines the war in the Multi-National Division-Center, an area of operations established in the spring of 2007 to focus on the insurgent sanctuaries and supply lines south of the Iraqi capital. Before the surge, the territory was a backwater, used by al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups to recruit new fighters, construct roadside bombs, and transport both to the ongoing fighting in Baghdad. One of the five new brigades that “surged” into Iraq went to this region, more than doubling the number of U.S. forces already there and forming the southern anchor of the battle to sever this crucial link with the insurgents in the capital. The fighting south of Baghdad became something of a microcosm of the surge overall, an example of the necessity to combine troop strength with sound planning in order to defeat insurgents living among the population. This volume, completed only a short time after the event, provides a valuable perspective for the ongoing counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Surging South of Baghdad: The 3D Infantry Division and Task Force Marne in Iraq, 2007-2008 (Global War on Terrorism)

Andrade, Dale

Middle East

"Modern War in an Ancient Land: The United States Army in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, 2001-2014 examines the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan in October 2001 and the thirteen-plus years of conflict that followed. Whether sent to Afghanistan to counter terrorists, defeat an insurgency, develop institutions, or support a democracy, Army commanders operated under the assumption that by securing Afghans and their fledgling national government, the U.S. military was protecting America and the Western way of life. For more than a decade, Army formations deployed to Afghanistan to forge a country that would remain unified, at peace with its neighbors, and inhospitable to terrorists who expressed their hatred of the American homeland though violence. Modern War in an Ancient Land is the result of historical thinking by the Armys senior leadership"--Provided by publisher.

Modern War in an Ancient Land : The United States Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014

E. J. Degen (Ed)

Mark J. Reardon (Ed)

Operation Enduring Freedom Study Group

U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860-1941

Birtle, Andrew J.

Designed to foster an appreciation of the value of military history. Explains its uses and the resources available for its study. Consists of four parts: Part One, Military History, Its Nature and Use; Part Two, Bibliographical Guide; Part Three, Army Programs, Activities, and Uses; Part Four: History Outside the U.S. Army. Includes Appendices, Bibliography, and Index.

A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History

Jessup, John E., Jr. and Robert W. Coakley

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Military Communications: a Test for Technology

Manhattan, the Army and the Atomic Bomb (United States Army in World War II)

Truce Tent and Fighting Front (Korean War 40th Anniversary Commemorative Edition)

Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992

The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941 (Army Historical)

The Army Medical Department, 1917-1941 (Army Historical)

Surging South of Baghdad: The 3D Infantry Division and Task Force Marne in Iraq, 2007-2008 (Global War on Terrorism)

Modern War in an Ancient Land : The United States Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014

U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1860-1941

A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History