Modern American Military - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199895945 ISBN 13: 9780199895946

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The advent of the all-volunteer force and the evolving nature of modern warfare have transformed our military, changing it in serious if subtle ways that few Americans are aware of. Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy, this stimulating volume brings together insights from a remarkable group of scholars, who shed important new light on the changes effecting today's armed forces.

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Review:

Academic yet accessible, this volume offers thoughtful and occasionally disturbing insights into the workings of the world's most powerful war machine. (Publishers Weekly)

About the Author:

David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University and the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He won the Bancroft Prize for Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Over Here: The First World War and American Society, and won the Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. He is also the editor of the renowned Oxford History of the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199895945
• ISBN 13: 9780199895946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Kennedy David