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In September 1939, Canada’s tiny army began its remarkable
expansion into a wartime force of almost half a million soldiers.
Building the Army’s Backbone tells the story of how senior
leadership created a corps of non-commissioned officers (NCOs) that
helped the burgeoning force train, fight, and win. This innovative
book uncovers the army’s two-track NCO production system: locally
organized training programs were run by units and formations, while
centralized training and talent-distribution programs were overseen
by the army. Ultimately, this two-pronged system produced a corps
of NCOs that collectively possessed the necessary skills in
leadership, tactics, and instruction to help the army succeed in
battle.
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and
Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both
world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the
empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans,
and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising
armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and
assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for
recruitment, registration, and assignment. It requires processes
for transforming common people into soldiers and then producing
officers, staffs, and commanders to lead them. It necessitates
balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and
agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here,
raising armies relies on medical services for mending wounded
soldiers and programs and pensions to look after them when
demobilized. Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the
Two World Wars is a transnational look at how the empire did not
always get these things right. But through trial, error, analysis,
and introspection, it levied the large armies needed to prosecute
both wars. Contributors Paul R. Bartrop, Charles Booth, Jean Bou,
Daniel Byers, Kent Fedorowich, Jonathan Fennell, Meghan
Fitzpatrick, Richard S. Grayson, Ian McGibbon, Jessica Meyer, Emma
Newlands, Kaushik Roy, Roger Sarty, Gary Sheffield, Ian van der
Waag
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and
Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both
world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the
empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans,
and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising
armies is more than counting people, putting them in uniform, and
assigning them to formations. It demands efficient measures for
recruitment, registration, and assignment. It requires processes
for transforming common people into soldiers and then producing
officers, staffs, and commanders to lead them. It necessitates
balancing the needs of the armed services with industry and
agriculture. And, often overlooked but illuminated incisively here,
raising armies relies on medical services for mending wounded
soldiers and programs and pensions to look after them when
demobilized. Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the
Two World Wars is a transnational look at how the empire did not
always get these things right. But through trial, error, analysis,
and introspection, it levied the large armies needed to prosecute
both wars. Contributors Paul R. Bartrop, Charles Booth, Jean Bou,
Daniel Byers, Kent Fedorowich, Jonathan Fennell, Meghan
Fitzpatrick, Richard S. Grayson, Ian McGibbon, Jessica Meyer, Emma
Newlands, Kaushik Roy, Roger Sarty, Gary Sheffield, Ian van der
Waag
In September 1939, Canada's tiny army began its remarkable
expansion into a wartime force of almost half a million soldiers.
Building the Army's Backbone tells the story of how senior
leadership created a corps of non-commissioned officers (NCOs) that
helped the burgeoning force train, fight, and win. This innovative
book uncovers the army's two-track NCO production system: locally
organized training programs were run by units and formations, while
centralized training and talent-distribution programs were overseen
by the army. Ultimately, this two-pronged system produced a corps
of NCOs that collectively possessed the necessary skills in
leadership, tactics, and instruction to help the army succeed in
battle.
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