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Behind the Gas Mask - The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service in War and Peace (Hardcover)
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Behind the Gas Mask - The U.S. Chemical Warfare Service in War and Peace (Hardcover)
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In Behind the Gas Mask, Thomas Faith offers an institutional
history of the Chemical Warfare Service, the department tasked with
improving the Army's ability to use and defend against chemical
weapons during and after World War One. Taking the CWS's story from
the trenches to peacetime, he explores how the CWS's work on
chemical warfare continued through the 1920s despite deep
opposition to the weapons in both military and civilian circles.
As Faith shows, the believers in chemical weapons staffing the CWS
allied with supporters in the military, government, and private
industry to lobby to add chemical warfare to the country's
permanent arsenal. Their argument: poison gas represented an
advanced and even humane tool in modern war, while its applications
for pest control and crowd control made a chemical capacity
relevant in peacetime. But conflict with those aligned against
chemical warfare forced the CWS to fight for its institutional
life--and ultimately led to the U.S. military's rejection of
battlefield chemical weapons.
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