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War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the
military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment
ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the
Russian reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy,
absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority.
While there is a sizable literature about the impact of the
Enlightenment on government, economy, manners, and literature in
Russia, no analytical framework that outlines its impact on the
military exists. Eugene Miakinkov's research addresses this gap and
challenges the assumption that the military was an unadaptable and
vertical institution. Using archival sources, military manuals,
essays, memoirs, and letters, the author demonstrates how the
Russian militaires philosophes operationalized the Enlightenment by
turning thought into reality.
After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied
Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a
"Renaissance admiral." A U. S. Naval Academy graduate with a
master's degree and doctorate from The Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University, conversant in both French and
Spanish, this author of numerous books and articles impressed the
Navy's leaders and senior Pentagon civilians with his wide range of
interests, educational background, keen understanding of strategic
doctrine, mastery of long-range planning, and command of
international affairs. Since NATO had previously been led by
generals, Stavridis saw his assignment as the first admiral to take
command as somewhat "accidental." As the American and NATO
commander in Europe responsible for 120,000 coalition troops
serving in fifty-one nations, on three continents and at sea he had
come a long way since almost leaving the Navy for law school five
years after receiving his commission. The Accidental Admiral offers
an intimate look at the challenges of directing NATO operations in
Afghanistan, military intervention in Libya, and preparation for
possible war in Syria--as well as worrying about the Balkans, cyber
threats, and piracy, all while cutting NATO by a third due to
budget reductions by the twenty-eight nations of the alliance. More
than just describing the history of the times, Stavridis also
shares his insights into the personalities of President Barack
Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretaries of Defense
Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, and Chuck Hagel, Afghan President Hamid
Karzai; Generals David Petraeus, Stanley McChrystal, John Allen,
and many more. Known as an innovator and an early adopter of
technology and social media, Stavridis' ability to think "outside
the box" and sail in uncharted waters is unmatched. He shares his
insights on leadership, strategic communications, planning, and the
convergence of threats that will confront the United States and its
allies in the near future. Stavridis is an advocate of the use of
"Smart Power," which he defines as the balance of hard and soft
power. He explains that in creating security in the twenty-first
century it is critical to build bridges, not walls, and stresses
the need to connect international, interagency, and public-private
actors to achieve security.
Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new
phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It
forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along
technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient
Asian bloc centered on Japan and its puppet state of Manchukuo. In
Planning for Empire, Janis Mimura traces the origins and evolution
of this new order and the ideas and policies of its chief
architects, the reform bureaucrats. The reform bureaucrats pursued
a radical, authoritarian vision of modern Japan in which public and
private spheres were fused, ownership and control of capital were
separated, and society was ruled by technocrats. Mimura shifts our
attention away from reactionary young officers to state
planners-reform bureaucrats, total war officers, new zaibatsu
leaders, economists, political scientists, engineers, and labor
party leaders. She shows how empire building and war mobilization
raised the stature and influence of these middle-class
professionals by calling forth new government planning agencies,
research bureaus, and think tanks to draft Five Year industrial
plans, rationalize industry, mobilize the masses, streamline the
bureaucracy, and manage big business. Deftly examining the
political battles and compromises of Japanese technocrats in their
bid for political power and Asian hegemony, Planning for Empire
offers a new perspective on Japanese fascism by revealing its
modern roots in the close interaction of technology and right-wing
ideology.
The Resistance, 1940 illuminates the early phase of the French
Resistance through first-hand accounts, describing how movements
organized themselves in opposition to both German occupation and
the collaborationist Vichy government. Translated and annotated by
Charles Potter, these writings, composed by French men and women,
reveal how the Resistance fighters experienced defeat and
resurrection in the pivotal year of 1940. This primary source
reader opens with First Fight, by Jean Moulin, which offers a vivid
eyewitness recounting of the collapse of France, penned by arguably
the greatest hero of the Resistance. This major historical document
is supplemented by three additional accounts of subsequent events.
First Resistance, by Germaine Tillion, who was arrested in 1942 and
sent to RavensbrA1/4ck concentration camp for the duration of the
war, depicts the formation of the Groupe du MusA (c)e de l'Homme.
National Liberation, by Henri Frenay, who originally supported the
Vichy government but quickly became disillusioned, offers details
on the planning of the vast resistance network later known as
Combat. Finally, We Were Terrorists, by Jean Garcin, excerpts the
memoir of a young Socialist in the southern zone who later headed
resistance efforts in the city of Marseilles. Along with these
annotated texts, Potter includes an informative introduction and
contextualizes each source, positioning the documents within the
timeline of events. Taken together, these four seminal accounts
from four individual perspectives offer compelling evidence about
how and when the French Resistance began.
Restore your faith in love and family with one Army wife's
courageous story of how she helped her husband recuperate from
losing both of his legs while serving in Afghanistan.Paige received
the phone call that every military wife prays will never come. Her
husband, Army Sergeant Josh Wetzel, stepped on an improvised
explosive device while patrolling in Afghanistan. The blast
resulted in the immediate loss of his legs. His survival was
uncertain, and in the days to come, this traumatic incident began
an unbelievable journey of faith for them as a couple.Paige's
vulnerability as she struggles physically, emotionally, and
spiritually, will remind you of the power of commitment and love in
the face of adversity. You will discover the bravery and grit of a
woman who stood behind the battle lines but faced a battle of her
own to save her marriage and her family. As a military wife, Paige
had to come to terms with the priorities of the military: God,
Country, and then Family.
In November of 1942, the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo,
Iowa, were killed when a Japanese torpedo sank their ship during
the most ferocious naval engagement fought in the South Pacific.
The family's loss, the most extraordinary for the United States in
its military history, was immortalized-and valorized-in the 1944
film The Fighting Sullivans. This book tells the story of how
calamity, with the help of Hollywood and the wartime publicity
machine, transformed a family of marginal and disreputable young
men, intensely disliked in their hometown, into heroes. The
Sullivan boys joined the armed forces after Pearl Harbor, and the
US Navy accepted that they would all serve on one ship, the light
cruiser USS Juneau. The five brothers gave the navy great
publicity, but when the ship went down and survivors were not
rescued, the service faced a serious problem. The Fighting
Sullivans examines the campaign that followed, as the navy and its
partners in Hollywood turned a tragedy of errors into a public
relations victory. Bruce Kuklick shows how the myth of the Sullivan
family was created using bits and pieces of real events, but with
twists that turned the boys into superhumans and their beleaguered
parents into self-sacrificing patriots. He explores the close
relationship between Hollywood studios and the military, which
aimed to boost morale and support for the war. A study in
mythmaking, The Fighting Sullivans offers a behind-the-scenes look
at the manufacture of heroes in twentieth-century wartime America.
John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted
into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle.
During that combat tour, he learned how important unit cohesion was
to surviving a war, both physically and mentally. He observed that
this cohesion developed as the soldiers experienced the horrors of
combat as a group, spending their downtime together and processing
their shared experiences. When Spencer returned to Iraq five years
later to take command of a troubled company, he found that his
lessons on how to build unit cohesion were no longer as applicable.
Rather than bonding and processing trauma as a group, soldiers now
spent their downtime separately, on computers communicating with
family back home. Spencer came to see the internet as a threat to
unit cohesion, but when he returned home and his wife was deployed,
the internet connected him and his children to his wife on a daily
basis. In Connected Soldiers Spencer delivers lessons learned about
effective methods for building teams in a way that overcomes the
distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the
benefits gained from connections to family.
Forced to contend with unprecedented levels of psychological trauma
during World War II, the United States military began sponsoring a
series of nontheatrical films designed to educate and even
rehabilitate soldiers and civilians alike. Traumatic Imprints
traces the development of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic
approaches to wartime trauma by the United States military, along
with links to formal and narrative developments in military and
civilian filmmaking. Offering close readings of a series of films
alongside analysis of period scholarship in psychiatry and
bolstered by research in trauma theory and documentary studies,
Noah Tsika argues that trauma was foundational in postwar American
culture. Examining wartime and postwar debates about the use of
cinema as a vehicle for studying, publicizing, and even what has
been termed "working through" war trauma, this book is an original
contribution to scholarship on the military-industrial complex.
You've served your country, now let the country serve you Veterans
Benefits Guide For Dummies is your clear and concise guide to the
benefits available to you from the VA and other government
organizations. You have access to physical and mental healthcare,
financial services, long-term planning, education, and much more.
This book explains how to make sense of and take advantage of the
extensive benefits program offered to veterans in the United
States. You'll learn what you're eligible for, how to file
applications and claims, and how to appeal decisions. This book
covers the most recent benefits available, including vocational
rehabilitation, life insurance, home loans, pensions, burial
benefits, and survivors' benefits. With Dummies, you can navigate
the paperwork to make sure you're getting everything that's
available to you. Figure out the VA benefits system and learn what
paperwork you need Discover the pros and cons of veterans' services
versus civilian services Develop a smart financial plan with a good
understanding of military pensions Find and secure benefits you may
not have known about - for yourself and your family Newly separated
and seasoned veterans alike will love Veterans Benefits Guide For
Dummies. We make it easy to get what's coming to you.
Fight for Us takes couples on an inspiring journey into the
challenges of battling for their marriage, through gut-wrenching
times of despair, and then finally to the victory of a renewed
relationship grounded in Jesus. Fight for Us delivers a compelling
marriage challenge of "five rounds" that teach readers how to
develop the never-give-up, never-quit mentality every relationship
needs in order to combat the enemy's constant attacks. Utilizing
narrative elements from the real-life story of Chad and Kathy
Robichaux, readers will learn how Chad's deployments to Afghanistan
as a Marine--and subsequent career as an MMA fighter--allowed him
to disengage from his emotions, his marriage, and his children.
Then, when his crippling PTSD brought him to brink of suicide,
Kathy's pastor taught him the "five rounds" of fighting that are
necessary in the battle for any marriage: Believe that God loves
you and has a purpose for your life. Take responsibility for your
actions. Accept that you can't change the evils that you've
encountered. Access God's power. Put yourself second. At the end of
the rounds, readers will discover God's design for marriage, which
saved Chad and Kathy's relationship. Today, they aim to pay it
forward and share what they've learned with other couples. Fight
for Us features application sections, discussion prompts,
affirmations, and Bible verses, all designed to help readers apply
the book's key marriage principles.
The very existence of everything in this world is from absolute
nothing. You need darkness to feel the presence of light! As I sat
down in the chaotic Mumbai suburbs trying to fathom limitless sea
of human population around me, it made me realise that there is no
limit to the limitlessness. For all who have spent even a little of
their time in Mumbai would understand what the city teaches
them.... to celebrate humanity. Humanity in all its manifestations;
Good, bad, ugly, it doesn't matter. Born in these very bylanes of
the `city limitless` was a child who decided to fly when people
doubted his ability to walk!
This book is a detailed history of the 27th Waffen-SS Division
"Langemarck," the Flemish volunteer SS combat formation.
"Langemarck" was employed chiefly on the Eastern Front, first in
the Ukraine in early 1944, then participating with a combat group
in Estonia along the Tannenberg Line in the summer of 1944,
alongside other European Waffen-SS volunteers subordinate to
III.SS-Pz.Korps--covering themselves with glory and suffering heavy
losses. After transformation into a division, "Langemarck"
participated in the final fighting on the Pomeranian and Oder
fronts, continuing to fight under extreme conditions, and always
holding their assigned positions, counterattacking whenever
possible. Most of the Flemish volunteers were able to surrender to
the Anglo-American forces, thus escaping capture by the Russians.
This complete treatment fills a large gap in Waffen-SS history.
Informative appendices relate to the unit's operational history and
also provide details on some of its members, as well as uniforms
and insignia.
"Managing Stress After War: Veteran's Workbook and Guide to
Wellness" outlines clear strategies for tackling problems such as
learning healthy coping skills, sleep problems, and managing
stress, anger, and depression. Written in an easy-to-understand
style, this essential workbook and its companion clinician's manual
were developed and refined by the authors to help veterans
returning from conflicts and provide education and intervention for
those who are experiencing war-related stress.
This newest edition of Command at Sea includes the valuable
guidance for prospective and commanding officers that has been the
hallmark of this book since it first appeared as well as addressing
the evolving nature of command at sea. This seventh edition has
been updated to incorporate new strategic guidance, examines recent
changes in fleet structure, and reflects the Navy's and our
nation's return to Great Power Competition amidst China's rising
assertiveness and a resurgent Russia's efforts to undermine NATO
unity in Europe. Of vital importance, this newest edition includes
lessons learned from the collisions of USS Fitzgerald and USS John
S. McCain. These tragedies prompted the Navy to initiate a
Comprehensive Review of Recent Surface Force Incidents that
recommended significant actions pertaining to the training,
operating, and equipping of surface ships and crews throughout the
force. The book provides additional guidance on joint and combined
operations, including the need for cooperation and coordination
among interagency players as well as non-governmental organizations
(NGOs), both international and domestic. The authors discuss
changes in the fleet, including the emergence of recent classes of
ships (the Freedom- and Independence-class littoral combat ships
and the Virginia-class attack submarines) and the addition of the
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Finally, the authors provide advice from
senior leaders, templates for new commanders to follow as they
assume command and a recommended reading list tailored to the
challenges and rewards of being a commanding officer.
"Motherhood" and "military" are often viewed as dichotomous
concepts, with the former symbolizing feminine ideals and
expectations, and the latter suggesting masculine ideals and norms.
Mothers, Military, and Society contributes to a growing body of
research that disrupts this false dichotomy. This interdisciplinary
and international volume explores the many ways in which mothers
and the military converse, align, contest, and intersect in
society. Through various chapters that include in-depth case
studies, theoretical perspectives and personal narratives, this
book offers insights into the complex relationship between
motherhood and the military in ways that will engage both academic
and non-academic readers alike.
The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of
change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the
1916-23 revolutionary period. Each volume is introduced by Fearghal
McGarry who sets the scene of this important period in Ireland's
history. Victory and Woe is an account of life at the grassroots
during the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War by the
Officer Commanding, 2nd Battalion, West Limerick Brigade of the
Irish Volunteers. Mossie Harnett (1893-1977), who fought on the
Anti-Treaty side in the Civil War, describes his early life on a
farm in Tournafulla in the southwest corner of Limerick, his
enrolment in the Irish Volunteers in 1915, and his involvement in
the conflict until his release from a Free State prison in 1923. In
an appendix, the British troops' little-known and short-lived
practice of taking hostages in order to protect themselves is
vividly described by Mossie's cousin, Dr Edward Harnett, who was
taken hostage in spring 1921. An introduction by Harnett's
son-in-law, James H. Joy, places his father-in-law's text in the
context of the revolutionary period.
Discover the brand new instalment in Lizzie Lane's bestselling
Tobacco Girls series! War is fleeting, but true love last
forever...May 1944 Hope and excitement is in the air when news
breaks of the allied forces landing in Normandy. D Day has arrived.
However, the day-to-day struggles for the Tobacco Girls continue.
Carole Thomas wants her old life back. She is burdened with the
guilt of being a young single mother and considers having baby
Paula adopted, but Maisie Miles will do anything to stop her.
Phyllis Mason having found the love of her life is getting married
in Malta to Mick Fairbrother, but will the dangerous legacies of
war plague her happy day? Bridget O'Neill finds herself posted to
one of the hospitals receiving the injured from the D-Day landing
beaches. Her most fervent hope is that her husband, Lyndon, does
not become one of them. Peace is on the horizon, but will their
wishes and dreams win through and bring them a happy ever after?
Praise for Lizzie Lane: 'A gripping saga and a storyline that will
keep you hooked' Rosie Goodwin 'The Tobacco Girls is another
heartwarming tale of love and friendship and a must-read for all
saga fans.' Jean Fullerton 'Lizzie Lane opens the door to a past of
factory girls, redolent with life-affirming friendship, drama, and
choices that are as relevant today as they were then.' Catrin
Collier 'If you want an exciting, authentic historical saga then
look no further than Lizzie Lane.' Fenella J Miller
U.S. military conflicts abroad have left nine million Americans
dependent on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for medical
care. Their "wounds of war" are treated by the largest hospital
system in the country-one that has come under fire from critics in
the White House, on Capitol Hill, and in the nation's media. In
Wounds of War, Suzanne Gordon draws on five years of observational
research to describe how the VHA does a better job than private
sector institutions offering primary and geriatric care, mental
health and home care services, and support for patients nearing the
end of life. In the unusual culture of solidarity between patients
and providers that the VHA has fostered, Gordon finds a working
model for higher-quality health care and a much-needed alternative
to the practice of for-profit medicine.
This book continues with the overview of the Waffen-SS units that
fought during WWII. It follows each unit as it was raised and then
where it fought. Within each of the various battles covered, the
book focuses specifically on each Waffen-SS soldier that was
awarded the Knights Cross to the Iron Cross (and higher grades
where applicable). This volume covers the period January to May
1944 and features 45 Knights Cross, 7 Oakleaves, 3 Swords and the
first Diamonds awardees. It was written with the help of surviving
Knights Cross holders and Waffen-SS soldiers that fought alongside
them. Original maps will help the reader see the significance of
each battle and the part played by the various Waffen-SS Knights
Cross awardees. This fourth volume contains a foreword by
Karl-Heinz Euling (Awarded the Knights Cross while serving with the
10th SS-Panzer Division Frundsberg).
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