Author: Alexander L. George
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231085953
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Chinese Communist Army in Action
Author: Alexander L. George
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231085953
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231085953
Category : Korean War, 1950-1953
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Quarterly Review of Military Literature
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Military Review
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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I Cannot Forget
Author: Judith Fenner Gentry
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 162349009X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the Yalu River, he was captured by the Chinese infantry. Moore and other American POWs suffered from starvation rations, bitter cold, and mental torment. Although the intense Chinese efforts to change the prisoners’ ideologies were largely unsuccessful, they were very effective in engendering distrust among the prisoners and abandonment of duty by the officers. Encouraged by an American sergeant, Moore worked with his captors to obtain better sanitation, a fairer distribution of food, and, on two occasions, medicine for the sick. Twice he tried to escape from imprisonment. Just four days after his twenty-first birthday, in 1953, the Chinese released him. Moore cooperated fully with US military interrogators, giving as much information as he could on the prison camp and the methods his captors had used. But two years later, army officers arrested him at his home and charged him with treason. Although the charge was dropped and a Field Board of Inquiry returned him to regular duty, the army’s treatment of him left Moore further traumatized. He eventually went AWOL and turned to drinking, gambling, and other self-destructive behaviors. Military historian Judith Fenner Gentry has worked with Moore’s memoirs of his experiences during and after the war to corroborate, clarify, elaborate, and situate his story within the larger events in Korea and in the Cold War. She has consulted records from courts-martial, newspaper interviews with returning POWs, and Freedom of Information Act documents on the Army Criminal Investigation Division and the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 162349009X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the Yalu River, he was captured by the Chinese infantry. Moore and other American POWs suffered from starvation rations, bitter cold, and mental torment. Although the intense Chinese efforts to change the prisoners’ ideologies were largely unsuccessful, they were very effective in engendering distrust among the prisoners and abandonment of duty by the officers. Encouraged by an American sergeant, Moore worked with his captors to obtain better sanitation, a fairer distribution of food, and, on two occasions, medicine for the sick. Twice he tried to escape from imprisonment. Just four days after his twenty-first birthday, in 1953, the Chinese released him. Moore cooperated fully with US military interrogators, giving as much information as he could on the prison camp and the methods his captors had used. But two years later, army officers arrested him at his home and charged him with treason. Although the charge was dropped and a Field Board of Inquiry returned him to regular duty, the army’s treatment of him left Moore further traumatized. He eventually went AWOL and turned to drinking, gambling, and other self-destructive behaviors. Military historian Judith Fenner Gentry has worked with Moore’s memoirs of his experiences during and after the war to corroborate, clarify, elaborate, and situate his story within the larger events in Korea and in the Cold War. She has consulted records from courts-martial, newspaper interviews with returning POWs, and Freedom of Information Act documents on the Army Criminal Investigation Division and the Army Counter-Intelligence Corps.
Research Memorandum
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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The Dragon Extends its Reach
Author: Larry M. Wortzel
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612344062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
China has evolved from a nation with local and regional security interests to a major economic and political power with global interests, investments, and political commitments. It now requires a military that can project itself around the globe, albeit on a limited scale, to secure its interests. Therefore, as Larry M. Wortzel explains, the Chinese Communist Party leadership has charged the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with new and challenging missions that require global capabilities. Advances in technology and the development of indigenous weapons platforms in China, combined with reactions to modern conflicts, have produced a military force very different from that which China has fielded in the past. Wortzel presents a clear and sobering picture of the PLA’s modernization effort as it expands into space and cyberspace, and as it integrates operations in the traditional domains of war. This book will appeal to the specialist in security and foreign policy issues in Asia as well as to the person interested in arms control, future warfare, and global military strategies. The book puts China’s military growth into historical context for readers of recent military and diplomatic history.
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612344062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
China has evolved from a nation with local and regional security interests to a major economic and political power with global interests, investments, and political commitments. It now requires a military that can project itself around the globe, albeit on a limited scale, to secure its interests. Therefore, as Larry M. Wortzel explains, the Chinese Communist Party leadership has charged the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with new and challenging missions that require global capabilities. Advances in technology and the development of indigenous weapons platforms in China, combined with reactions to modern conflicts, have produced a military force very different from that which China has fielded in the past. Wortzel presents a clear and sobering picture of the PLA’s modernization effort as it expands into space and cyberspace, and as it integrates operations in the traditional domains of war. This book will appeal to the specialist in security and foreign policy issues in Asia as well as to the person interested in arms control, future warfare, and global military strategies. The book puts China’s military growth into historical context for readers of recent military and diplomatic history.
Memorandum
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Professional Journal of the United States Army
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Problems of Communism
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Open Literature Publications of the Social Science Department, 1966-1968
Author: Doris Corbin
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
An annotated bibliography of about 130 available unclassified Reports, RMs, and Papers written by 56 members of Rand's Social Science Department and published between January 1966 and December 1968. The RM includes full availability information and a separate unannotated listing by title of 38 commercially published books that have resulted from Rand's social science studies. (Author).
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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An annotated bibliography of about 130 available unclassified Reports, RMs, and Papers written by 56 members of Rand's Social Science Department and published between January 1966 and December 1968. The RM includes full availability information and a separate unannotated listing by title of 38 commercially published books that have resulted from Rand's social science studies. (Author).