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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Examines the American soldiers behavior in France, showing that they didn't conduct themselves well when pursuing women, and explores the larger political and marital power struggles between the allied nations of France and the U.S.
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Men, masculinity, and militarism are so often seen to be in such close (and mythically heroic) correspondence, the war veteran-as-peace-advocate is sometimes viewed as an oxymoron. This is precisely what interests sociologist Mike Messner. In Guys Like Me (a reference to the phrase his own WWI veteran grandfather used to describe ordinary working-class soldiers), Messner writes, war veterans are rendered simultaneously invisible (due in part to the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead. Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous systems that can process information and strike violently before a human being can blink. A leading expert on the place of technology in war and intelligence,...
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Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of Englands Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and...
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