Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980 Linn Brian McAllister
What happens to the US Army after the battles are over, the citizen soldiers depart, and all that remains is the Regular Army? In this pathbreaking work, Brian Linn argues that in each decade…
Specifikacia Real Soldiering: The US Army in the Aftermath of War, 1815-1980 Linn Brian McAllister
What happens to the US Army after the battles are over, the citizen soldiers depart, and all that remains is the Regular Army? In this pathbreaking work, Brian Linn argues that in each decade following every major conflict since the War of 1812 the postwar army has undergone a long, painful, and remarkably consistent recovery process as it struggled to build a new model force to replace the "Old Army" that entered the conflict. Departing from the Washington-centric institutional histories of the past, Linn sets his focus on soldiering in the field, distilling the lived experiences of officers and troopers who were responsible for cleaning up the messes left in the wake of war.Real Soldiering provides the first comprehensive study of the US Army's transition from war to peace. It is both a wide-ranging history of the army's postwar experience and a work detailing the