• Introduction : navies are not just for fighting / by Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine
• Sailors and slaves : USS Constellation and the transatlantic slave trade / by John Pentangelo
• Overwhelming force and the Venezuelan crisis of 1902-1903 / by Henry J. Hendrix
• Starvation blockade and Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914-1919 / by Bruce A. Elleman
• The Allied embargo of Japan, 1939-1941 : from rollback to deterrence to boomerang / by S.C.M. Paine
• After the fall of South Vietnam : humanitarian assistance in the South China Sea / by Jan K. Herman
• Continuing to serve : deploying naval vessels as artificial reefs / by Tom Williams
• Naval sonars, strandings, and responsible stewardship of the seas / by Darlene R. Ketten
• U.S. Coast Guard response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill / by Mary Landry
• Deep blue diplomacy : soft power and China's antipiracy operations / by Andrew S. Erickson and Austin M. Strange
• Conclusions : breaking the mold / by Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine.

"For well over two centuries, the U.S. Navy has engaged in an ever broader array of nonmilitary missions. Although a fundamental raison d'etre of navies concerns hard power, in the twentieth century an awareness of the uses of soft power developed. For example, since ancient times protecting against piracy has been a common naval problem, while since the mid-nineteenth century equally important patrol missions, such as attempts to stop the illegal slave trade, have been conducted by the U.S. Navy. After the Cold War, many other nonmilitary missions became important, in particular maritime humanitarian-aid missions like the post-tsunami Operation Unified Assistance in Southeast Asia during 2004-2005 ... this volume presents nine historical case studies examining the use of navies in nonmilitary missions"--Preface.

• Introduction: Army chaplains in cultural transition
• Teaching the religion of democracy
• The sixties watershed
• Chaplains under fire
• Navigating the quagmire
• Ministering to the military institution
• "The conscience of the Army"
• Ministering on the battlefield
• Building soldier morale
• Addressing religious pluralism
• The 2005/2006 culture war
• Developing a culture of pluralism
• Epilogue.

Army chaplains have long played an integral part in America's armed forces. In addition to conducting chapel activities on military installations and providing moral and spiritual support on the battlefield, they conduct memorial services for fallen soldiers, minister to survivors, offer counsel on everything from troubled marriages to military bureaucracy, and serve as families' points of contact for wounded or deceased soldiers-all while risking the dangers of combat alongside their troops. In this thoughtful study, Anne C. Loveland examines the role of the army chaplain since World War II, revealing how the corps has evolved in the wake of cultural and religious upheaval in American society and momentous changes in U.S. strategic relations, warfare, and weaponry. From 1945 to the present, Loveland shows, army chaplains faced several crises that reshaped their roles over time. She chronicles the chaplains' initiation of the Character Guidance program as a remedy for the soaring rate of venereal disease among soldiers in occupied Europe and Japan after World War II, as well as chaplains' response to the challenge of increasing secularism and religious pluralism during the "culture wars" of the Vietnam Era."Religious accommodation, " evangelism and proselytizing, public prayer, and "spiritual fitness"provoked heated controversy among chaplains as well as civilians in the ensuing decades. Then, early in the twenty-first century, chaplains themselves experienced two crisis situations: one the result of the Vietnam-era antichaplain critique, the other a consequence of increasing religious pluralism, secularization, and sectarianism within the Chaplain Corps, as well as in the army and the civilian religious community. By focusing on army chaplains' evolving, sometimes conflict-ridden relations with military leaders and soldiers on the one hand and the civilian religious community on the other, Loveland reveals how religious trends over the past six decades have impacted the corps and, in turn, helped shape American military culture.
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In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achelleus to Lawrence of Arabia gays and lesbians have played a crucial but often hidden role in military campaigns. But recent debates over the legality of gay service in the military and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy have obscured this rich aspect of military history. Richard Burg has recovered important documents and assembled an anthology on these often invisible gay and lesbian warriors. Burg shows us that the Amazons of legend weren't just fictional. We learn about the richness and variety of their culture in documents from Plato, Seneca and Suetonius. From courts-martial proceedings we discover women warriors in seventeenth century England who passed as men in order to serve, and army officers whose underground culture fostered long-term romantic friendships. There are also sections on the American Civil War, World War I and II, the contemporary U.S. military as well as sailors and pirates. This anthology should change the way we think about "gays in the military".
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• Preface-- Acknowledgments--
• 1. Introduction: The Issues--
• 2. Background: American Military Chaplaincy, 1607-1860--
• 3. Civil War: Progress and Foretaste, 1861-1865--
• 4. Post-Civil War: Nadir and Turnaround, 1866-1898--
• 5. Expansion: Transition and Integration, 1899-1917--
• 6. World War I: Bureaucratization and Autonomy, 1917-192o--
• 7. Summary: A Bureaucratized Profession-- Notes-- Bibliographical Essay-- Index.
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Military chaplains have a long and distinguished tradition in the United States, but historians have typically ignored their vital role in ministering to the needs of soldiers and sailors. Richard M. Budd corrects this omission with a thoughtful history of the chaplains who sought to create a viable institutional structure for themselves within the U.S. Army and Navy that would best enable them to minister to the fighting men. Despite the chaplaincy's long history of accompanying American armies into battle, there has never been consensus on its role within the military, among the churches, or even among chaplains themselves. Each of these constituencies has had its own vision for chaplains, and these ideas have evolved with changing social conditions and military growth. Moreover, chaplains, acting as members of one profession operating within the specific environment of another, raised questions of whether they could or should integrate themselves into the military. In effect they had to learn to serve two institutional masters, the church and the government, simultaneously. Budd provides a history of the struggle of chaplains to professionalize their ranks and to obtain a significant measure of autonomy within the military's bureaucratic structure-always with the ultimate goal of more efficiently bringing their spiritual message to the troops. Richard M. Budd is a Lutheran pastor in Leeds, North Dakota, and a chaplain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He has a Ph.D. in military history from Ohio State University, and his work has appeared in Ohio History, The Navy Chaplain, and Trinity Seminary Review.
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• Rapport de synthèse
• Document
• 1. Politique et stratégie pour une armée républicaine au service du développement.

• "An invisible armor" : the progressive social vision and World War One
• "Full-orbed moral manhood" : cultural nationalism and the creation of new men and women
• Reformers between two worlds : the battle against tradition and working-class modernism
• Building a national community : the complexities of gender
• Repression and resistance : African Americans and the progressives' national community
• The end of the crusade : demobilization and the legacy of the CTCA.

In response to public demands, President Wilson created the Commission on Training Camp Activities in 1917 to ensure the purity of the military training camp environment. Bristow (history, U. of Puget Sound) provides a history of this federal program, originally designed to eliminate venereal disea.
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It was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific-- All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan's major cities. As the bats went to roost, a million fires would flare up in remote crannies of the wood and paper buildings common throughout Japan. When their cities were reduced to ashes, the Japanese would surely capitulate... The plan made sense to a handful of eccentric promoters and researchers, who convinced top military brass and even President Roosevelt to back the scheme. It might have worked, except that another secret weapon--something to do with atoms--was chosen to end the war. Told here by the youngest member of the team, this is the story of the bat bomb project, or Project X-Ray, as it was officially known. In scenes worthy of a Capra or Hawks comedy, Jack Couffer recounts the unorthodox experiments carried out in the secrecy of Bandera, Texas, Carlsbad, New Mexico, and El Centro, California, in 1942-1943 by "Doc" Adams' private army. This oddball cast of characters included an eccentric inventor, a distinguished Harvard scientist, a biologist with a chip on his shoulder, a movie star, a Texas guano collector, a crusty Marine Corps colonel, a Maine lobster fisherman, an ex-mobster, and a tiger. Not to be defeated by minor logistical hurdles, the bat bomb researchers risked life and limb to explore uncharted bat caves and "recruit" thousands of bats to serve their country. Through months of personality conflicts, military snafus, and technical failures the team pressed on, certain that bats could end the war with Japan. And they might have--in their first airborne test, the bat bombers burned anentire brand-new military airfield to the ground. For everyone who relishes true tales of action and adventure, Bat Bomb is a must-read. Bat enthusiasts will also discover the beginnings of the scientific study of bats.
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This book is the first history of the techniques, systems, and technologies used to evacuate wounded from the battlefield. Historically, the word "ambulance "described those facilities that provided temporary assistance to the wounded, thus distinguishing them from stationary hospitals where military personnel received more permanent care. Americans and British, however, applied the term to the two-to four-wheeled transport conveyances that carried wounded from the battlefield to the war hospitals. With the aid of fifty-four illustrations, John S. Haller traces the histories of both meanings of the word from the Napoleonic era through the Great War and its aftermath. He concentrates on the development of British and American evacuation procedures and technology with a focus on hand conveyances and wheeled vehicles. His intent is not to cover all aspects of medical evacuation but to accurately recount the common medical evacuation problems, incongruities, and controversies that existed for warring nations.
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• 2. Personal hygiene and first aid.