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Controlling The Big Stick: The United States Navy And The Cuban Intervention Of September 1906, Christopher A. Abel
Controlling The Big Stick: The United States Navy And The Cuban Intervention Of September 1906, Christopher A. Abel
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
A case study method is used to examine the role played by the United States Navy in bringing about the Second Cuban Intervention of 1906-1909. The 1906 American navy had a distinct lack of centralized direction during the September crisis in Cuba. As a consequence, initiative in the crisis passed to the several naval officers representing the United States in Cuba at the time. These officers acted in consonance with the navy's own institutional agendas and contrary to the objectives of the Theodore Roosevelt administration. In so doing these officers were supported and even rewarded for their actions by the …
Curtain Of Silence Japanese In Soviet Custody, 1945-1956, William F. Nimmo
Curtain Of Silence Japanese In Soviet Custody, 1945-1956, William F. Nimmo
Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations
The Soviet Union attacked- and defeated Japanese forces in Northeast Asia in the final days of the Second World War, and 2,100,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians suddenly fell into the hands of the Red Army. This thesis examines the experiences of Japanese in Soviet custody, efforts to obtain their release, and their eventual return to Japan. Repatriation of civilians from Soviet-controlled areas was slow, and military personnel were taken to the USSR for use as forced labor for several years. The Soviets conducted an intensive Marxist-Leninist indoctrination program for prisoners of war, and a professed acceptance of communism was a …
Efficient Action In The Construction Of Field Fortification: A Study Of The Civil War Defenses Of Raleigh, North Carolina, Thomas F. Higgins
Efficient Action In The Construction Of Field Fortification: A Study Of The Civil War Defenses Of Raleigh, North Carolina, Thomas F. Higgins
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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The Friction Of War: A Study Of The Lincoln And Welland Regiment, 1940-1945, Geoffrey Hayes
The Friction Of War: A Study Of The Lincoln And Welland Regiment, 1940-1945, Geoffrey Hayes
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This is a study of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment, a Canadian infantry Regiment which fought in North West Europe during the last ten months of the Second World War. It follows the Regiment’s development from its mobilization in 1940 until the end of the hostilities in May 1945. The relationship between the soldier, the military organization with which he could best identify and the field of battle is the central theme of this study. Through the use of both archival and oral evidence, this study examines what Carl von Clausewitz called “the friction of war.” It details how men …
Highland Light Infantry Of Canada, 1940-1944, Richard Mark Dykeman
Highland Light Infantry Of Canada, 1940-1944, Richard Mark Dykeman
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
This thesis is a study of the Canadian infantry battalion, the Highland Light Infantry of Canada, in the first five months of the campaign to liberate northwest Europe. The purpose of this paper is to establish a careful record of the unit’s campaign as a way of addressing the critical statements made by C.P. Stacey, the Official Historian of the Canadian Army in the Second World War and other military historians, on the leadership and performance of Canadian military units in northwest Europe. Throughout the campaign the battalion under study demonstrated a pattern of careful planning, high courage and skill …