Encyclopedia of Military Science

by G. Kurt Piehler (Editor)

Overview

The Encyclopedia of Military Science provides a comprehensive, ready-reference on the organization, traditions, training, purpose, and functions of today’s military. Entries in this four-volume work include coverage of the duties, responsibilities, and authority of military personnel and an understanding of strategies and tactics of the modern military and how they interface with political, social, legal, economic, and technological factors. A large component is devoted to issues of leadership, group dynamics, motivation, problem-solving, and decision making in the military context. Finally, this work also covers recent American military history since the end of the Cold War with a special emphasis on peacekeeping and peacemaking operations, the First Persian Gulf War, the events surrounding 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and how the military has been changing in relation to these events.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506307763
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/24/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1928
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

G. Kurt Piehler is director of the Institute of World War II and the Human Experience and associate professor of history at Florida State University. Prior to becoming the institute director in 2011, he held academic positions at the City University of New York, Drew University, Rutgers University, and the University of Tennessee. In 2008, he served as Fulbright Lecturer in American Studies at Kobe University and Kyoto University. As founding director (1994–1998) of the Rutgers Oral History Archives, he conducted more than 200 interviews with veterans of World War II.

Piehler is the author of Remembering War the American Way (1995) and World War II (2007). He is editor of The United States in World War II: A Documentary Reader (2013) and co-edited The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front (2010); The Atomic Bomb and American Society: New Perspectives (2009); and Major Problems in American Military History (1999). He served as associate editor of Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Home Front (2005) and consulting editor of the Oxford Companion to American Military History (1999). Piehler edits two book series: World War II: The Global, Human, Ethical Dimension (Fordham University Press) and Legacies of War (University of Tennessee Press).

Editorial Reviews

"...This is a high-quality work that introduces the reader to a wide variety of issues related to the military and military-related issues. All senior military colleges as well as schools with ROTC programs will want to have a copy of this encyclopedia. Public libraries will also want to consider this work because of the broad range of useful facts."

Booklist - Rachael Elrod

★ 05/15/2014
Numerous reference works cover various themes within military science, such as intelligence or military equipment. But the last remotely comprehensive work on military studies or military science was the Encyclopedia of the American Military, published in 1994. This current work provides a necessary update. Editors Piehler (history, Florida State Univ. and director, Inst. on World War II and the Human Experience) and Johnson (history, Virginia Military Inst.) have fulfilled their aim of creating an interdisciplinary work on the nature of modern war. Major themes include civil-military relations, major branches of the American forces, training and education, approaches to military and naval history, strategic and tactical approaches to waging war, research and development, life and diversity in the forces, military law and the military justice system, values and ethics, contemporary events, and media coverage. Many entries reflect a more modern approach to military science, presenting topics never before covered in a work such as this. In addition to conflicts such as the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s, readers will find entries on the Bush Doctrine, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," personal finance, Halliburton, maritime piracy, and rules of engagement. Contributors, many of them established scholars in their respective fields, represent a wide range of military and academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. VERDICT This work will appeal most to its intended audiences of military personnel and trainees, as well as scholars and students with interests in military science. Timely in light of recent global events, these volumes constitute a welcome modernization and an accessible, comprehensive approach to military studies.—Matthew Wayman, Pennsylvania State Univ. Lib., Schuylkill Haven

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