Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has emerged as one of the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Having provided more troop-years to these engagements than all the other services combined, the toll of PTSD has been especially burdensome for U.S. Army service…
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During the interwar period, civil-military relations between Army aviation leaders and civilian officials developed unevenly from confrontation to cooperation. In the early 1920s, rebellious airmen became entangled in politics as they tried to force the creation of an independen…
Over the past decade, there has been a major shift in the Army's missions, reflecting changes and new struggles in the world. Military missions have recently shifted from combat to peacekeeping operations. In spite of this fact, there is little empirical research on how soldiers…
This dissertation extends previous work concerning doctrine and the U.S. Army by asking: How appropriate was doctrine in guiding U.S. Army military operations between 1775 and 2000? Doctrine consists of published manuals that reconcile group interests, guide operational practice…
This dissertation is a social and military history of the army in Egypt under the Ptolemies (323–30 BC), the Greek rulers who succeeded Alexander the Great in Egypt. Building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, notably Mann's concept of social power (1986) that th…
There is an ongoing debate as to the role of women in Israel's army and to the degree of integration of women into male-dominated military positions. Using qualitative methods (in-depth interviews and participant observation), this dissertation examines the participation of wome…
National Guard units have been asked to serve in ways never before experienced since the beginning of the Iraq War and throughout the continued war on terror. Multiple deployments, frequent long-term separations from families, communities, and jobs may have far reaching implicat…
This study continues the exploration of the correlation between Organizational Commitment and the decision to reenlistment by initial term and mid-career U.S. Army soldiers. Also, the study measured intent to leave in correlation with organizational commitment scale and other fa…
Why has the institutional U.S. Army changed since the end of the Cold War? There is evidence that supports existing scholarly arguments that the civilian leaders caused important changes, which authors like Barry Posen (1984) and Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow (1999) expect. …
Skilled use of scientific forensics has been virtually absent in Afghanistan, as well as specific national standards and procedures that reference how to handle this sensitive evidence. The problem addressed in this study was the evaluation of a recently introduced program to bo…
This qualitative, phenomenological study provides a broad view of the effects of Army female service members' post deployment psychological condition as described by their caregiver husbands' perspective. The Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes a …
In the face of defeat, national militaries occasionally exhibit the ability to engage in doctrinal innovation in an attempt to alter the course of a war. In Vietnam, the US Army was unable to achieve the objectives for which the war was being fought and suffered strategic defeat…
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 changed the world. These changes affect every part of the United States, from domestic security measures to its foreign policy. In October of that year, American forces invaded Afghanistan, where the plot for the attacks originated. Th…
From Bush's September 20, 2001 “War on Terror” speech to Congress to President-Elect Barack Obama's acceptance speech on November 4, 2008, the U.S. Army produced visual recruitment material that addressed the concerns of falling enlistment numbers—due to the prolonged and diffic…
In the Jewish War (66-74 A.D.), the Romans foraged for fodder, firewood and water, but used supply lines to provide grain and other foodstuffs. A series of bases, connected by supply lines, were used to provision armies in the field. Chapter One surveys 1st century Palestine. Ce…
The purpose of this project is to examine the growth of the American military service regimes along with how the American State used those regimes to construct American identity. To accomplish this, this project looks at the length of American war as a dependent variable from th…
Every major American conflict includes studies examining the experience of the common soldier. Within those many experiences, notions of manhood often provided the impetus for a soldier to enlist, fight, and continue to endure the brutal realities of combat and war. Additionally…