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The Marines' Fight for Survival : War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952

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자료유형 :	단행본
ISBN :	9780700640485 :
분류기호 :	359.96
개인저자 :	Andrew, Rod
서명/저자사항 :	The Marines' Fight for Survival : War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952 / Rod Andrew.
발행사항 :	[Lawrence] : University Press of Kansas, [2025]
형태사항 :	xii, 423 pages: illustrations; 24 cm
총서사항 :	Studies in civil-military relations
서지주기 :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기 :	"Half Horse and Half Alligator": The Marine Corps' Survival and Search for Identity, 1775-1917 -- Finding A New Identity: 1919-1941 -- "Just a Bunch of Beach Runners..." A New Prominence, and a New Danger: U.S. Marines in World War II, 1941-1945 -- The Unification Fight: Opening Salvos, 1944-1945 -- The Unification Fight in 1946--The "Chowder Society" and the Secret Papers -- "No Bended Knee:" The Fight over Senate Bill No. 2044 in 1946 -- Towards the National Security Act--The Fight in the Senate -- "Marines! Marines! That's All I Hear": The Passage of the National Security Act, 1947 -- The "Revolt of the Admirals" and the Decline of the Marine Corps, July 1947-June 1950 -- The Nadir, and the Great Mobilization, January 1949-August 1950 -- "Truman's Police Force" and the Pusan Perimeter -- Inchon-"The Navy and Marines Have Never Shone Brighter" -- "You damned Marines...always seem to be at the right place at the right time:" The Drive to Seoul -- "We weren't going to get pushed around in combat:" The Crisis at the Chosin Reservoir -- "We've Got the Bastards Right Where We Want Them:" The Breakout -- From Korea to Capitol Hill: The "Marine Corps Bill" in 1951 -- Victory in Congress, 1952.
요약 :	"Narrow Passage is about the institutional survival of the Marine Corps in the period when it was dangerously close to being eliminated, absorbed into the Army, or having its main roles and missions taken away so that it became almost completely irrelevant. It's not a story that is well known outside of the Marine Corps these days, even in academic circles, but it was an incredibly emotional issue at the time for many Americans, and one that was bitterly fought out in Washington and in the national media"-- Provided by publisher.
요약 :	"The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.Only five years after Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima, the United States Marine Corps was close to becoming a hollow force. A parsimonious Truman administration and a hostile defense secretary, Louis Johnson, had reduced the Corps to a handful of understrength infantry battalions, assorted supporting artillery and tank units, and twelve aircraft squadrons. Its future hung in the balance.In The Marines' Fight for Survival, historian and retired Marine Corps Colonel Rod Andrew Jr. guides readers through the dramatic twists and turns of the campaign waged by a handful of senior Marines, citizens, legislators, and journalists to defend the Corps and prevent its elimination or forced irrelevance. Through politicking, intrigue, deception, and extreme moral courage, the Corps' defenders waged a bitter battle of policy and publicity in the halls of power and the national media.But while this campaign of persuasion moved the needle in some important ways, the final victory for the Marines' future was ultimately won on the battlefields of Korea. Andrew argues that it was the gritty performance of the frontline Marines and their supporting airmen in Korea that ultimately saved the Corps. The elite reputation that they created for themselves, and the affection they had garnered from the public throughout the twentieth century, would not have been possible without the valor and the victories of frontline Marines. The Corps' place in the national defense structure was sealed with the Douglas-Mansfield Act of 1952, in which Congress granted a legal voice to the USMC Commandant on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and made the Corps the only service branch to have a permanent minimal strength protected by law"-- Provided by publisher.
주제명(단체명) :	United States. -- Marine Corps -- History --
주제명(단체명) :	United States. -- Douglas-Mansfield Act of 1952 --
일반주제명 :	HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Korean War --
일반주제명 :	HISTORY / Military / General --
주제명(지명) :	United States Military policy
주제명(지명) :	United States History, Naval 20th century
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