| Description |
1 online resource (4 volumes (xxxv, 1824 pages)) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Volume 1. A -- Abu Ghraib -- Abuse, Family and Child -- Accommodations, Field -- Advertising, Military-Sponsored -- Aerial Refueling -- Afghanistan -- Afghanistan War -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- African Americans -- Agent Orange -- Air Force, Department of -- Air Force, U.S. -- Air Force Command -- Air Force One -- Air Mobility Command -- Air National Guard -- Airborne Units -- Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) Aircraft -- Aircraft, Antisubmarine -- Aircraft, Attack -- Aircraft, Bomber -- Aircraft, Fighter -- Aircraft, Patrol -- Aircraft, Reconnaissance -- Aircraft, Transport -- Aircraft Carriers -- AirLand Battle Doctrine -- al Qaeda -- Alliances -- All-Volunteer Force -- Ambush -- American Battle Monuments Commission -- American Legion -- American Revolution -- Ammunition -- Amphibious Vehicles -- Anthrax -- Anthropology and War -- Antisubmarine Warfare -- Antiwar Movement -- ANZUS Security Treaty -- Appropriations, Military -- Arab Americans -- Archives, Military -- Arlington National Cemetery -- Armed Forces Radio and Television Service -- Armed Services Committee, House -- Armed Services Committee, Senate -- Armor, Body -- Armored Vehicles -- Arms, Small -- Army, Department of -- Army, U.S. -- Army Corps of Engineers -- Army Nurse Corps -- Army War College -- Army-Navy Game -- Art, Combat -- Artillery -- Asia -- Asian Americans -- Association of the United States Army -- Asymmetric Warfare -- Athletics -- Attachés, Military -- Attrition Warfare -- Australia -- Aviation, Army -- B -- Bands and Music -- Base Realignment and Closure -- Bases, Foreign -- Bases, U.S. -- Battleships -- Benefits, Military -- Benefits, Veteran -- Blackwater -- Blitzkrieg Warfare -- Boeing -- Bombs, Cluster -- Bombs, Gravity -- Bombs, Nuclear -- Bombs, Smart -- Border Patrol -- Bosnia Intervention -- Brazil -- Brigade -- Bush Doctrine -- C -- Canada -- Caribbean -- Cemeteries, Military -- Censorship |
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Central America -- Central Asia -- Central Intelligence Agency -- Chaplains -- China, People's Republic of -- Citadel, The -- Civil Affairs -- Civil Defense -- Civil Disorder -- Civil War, American -- Civil-Military Relations -- Classification Security -- Clausewitz, Carl von -- Close Air Support -- Clothing -- Coalition, Warfare -- Coalition Provisional Authority -- Coast Guard, U.S. -- Code of Conduct -- Colombia -- Colonial Wars (1607 / 1774) -- Combat, Physical and Psychological Impact -- Combat Load -- Combat Power -- Combat Service Support -- Combined Arms -- Command and Control -- Command and General Staff College -- Commissioned Officers -- Communication -- Company -- Congress, U.S. -- Congressional Relations, Military -- Conscientious Objection -- Conscription -- Constitution, U.S. -- Constitutional Rights, Personnel -- Contractors, Private -- Counterinsurgency -- Counterintelligence -- Courage -- Court-Martial -- Covert Actions, Military -- Crimes, Military -- Crimes, War -- Cruisers, Naval -- Cuba -- Cultural Property and Heritage -- Culture, Military -- Customs and Traditions -- Cyberwar |
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Volume 2. D -- Decorations and Medals -- Defense, Department of -- Defense, Secretary of -- Defense Intelligence Agency -- Defense Language Institute -- Desertion -- Destroyers -- Deterrence -- Direct Fire -- Disability -- Discharge and Separation -- Diversity -- Division -- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- Draft -- Drill and Ceremony -- Drug Interdiction -- E -- Economy and National Defense -- Effectiveness, Combat -- Egypt -- Engineers, Combat -- Environment -- Ethics -- Etiquette -- Europe -- F -- Family, Military -- Family Readiness -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Films -- Finance, Personal -- Fire, Direct and Indirect -- Fire, Friendly -- Food -- Force Reconnaissance, Marine -- Foreign Relations Committee, House -- Foreign Relations Committee, Senate -- France -- Frederick II of Prussia -- Friendly Fire -- Frigates -- G -- Gates, Robert -- Gays and Lesbians -- General Dynamics -- Geneva Conventions -- Genocide -- Germany -- Giap, Vo Nguyen -- Global Positioning System -- Global War on Terrorism -- Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act -- Green Berets -- Guantanamo Bay Prison -- Guerrilla Warfare -- Gulf War Syndrome -- Guns, Machine -- H -- Hague Conventions -- Haiti -- Haiti, U.S. Intervention in -- Halliburton -- Hamas -- Hanson, Victor Davis -- Hazing -- Helicopters -- Helmets -- History, Military: Approaches to -- History, Naval: Approaches to -- HIV/AIDS -- Homeland Security -- Homeland Security, Department of -- Human Rights -- Humanitarian Intervention, Foreign -- Huntington, Samuel -- Hurricane Katrina -- I -- India -- Indian Wars -- Indirect Fire -- Infantry -- Insurgency -- Intelligence, Geospatial -- Intelligence, Human -- Intelligence Cycle -- Intelligence Organizations, Military -- Intelligence Oversight, Congressional -- International Criminal Court -- Internet -- Interpreters and Translators -- Interrogation -- Iran -- Iran-Contra Scandal -- Iraq -- Iraq Insurgency (2003 / 2011) -- Iraq War (2003) -- Iraq War, Planning for -- Israel -- J -- Japan -- Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command -- Jomini, Antoine-Henri -- Journalists, Embedded -- Just War Tradition -- K -- Keegan, John -- Korea, North -- Korean War (1950 / 1953) -- Kosovo Intervention -- L -- Language, Military -- Latinos -- Laws of War -- Leadership -- Leaves and Furloughs -- Lebanon, U.S. Intervention in (1982) -- Levels of War -- Liberia -- Libya -- Liddell Hart, Basil -- Literature and War -- Lockheed Martin -- Logistics -- Luttwak, Edward N. -- M -- Mahan, Alfred Thayer -- Mao Zedong -- Marine Corps, U.S. -- Marine Corps League -- Marine Corps University -- Marine Guards, Embassy -- Marine One -- Marshall, S. L. A. -- Media Relations, Military -- Medical Disability, Veteran -- Medicine, Military -- Medicine, Veterans -- Mexican-American War -- Mexico -- Middle East Conflict -- Military Advisors, U.S. -- Military Command Staffs -- Military Courtesy |
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Military Decision Making -- Military Journals and Newspapers -- Military Occupational Specialty -- Military Officers Association of America -- Military Organization, Air Force -- Military Organization, Army -- Military Organization, Marine Corps -- Military Organization, Navy -- Military Science -- Mines, Land -- Mines, Naval -- Missiles, Air-to-Air -- Missiles, Conventional -- Missiles, Cruise -- Missiles, Nuclear -- Mobilization -- Modular Army -- Morale -- Motion Pictures -- Motivation -- Museums, Military -- My Lai Massacre -- Volume 3 -- N -- National Defense University -- National Guard, Army -- National Military Family Association -- National Security Act -- National Security Agency -- National Security Council -- Nation-Building -- Native Americans -- NATO -- Natural Disaster, Military Response to -- Naval Postgraduate School -- Naval War College -- Navigation, Aerial -- Navigation, Sea -- Navy, Department of -- Navy, U.S. -- Navy League -- Navy Nurse Corps -- Neoconservatives -- Nicaragua Intervention (1920s) -- 9/11 (2001) -- 9/11 Attack on Pentagon -- 9/11 Commission -- Noncommissioned Officer Academies -- Noncommissioned Officers -- North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Northrop Grumman -- Norwich University -- Nuclear Proliferation -- Nuremberg War Crimes Trials -- O -- Oath of Enlistment -- Occupations -- Officer Candidate School -- Officer Career Fields -- OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act) -- Operations, Air -- Operations, Cold-Weather -- Operations, Jungle -- Operations, Mountain -- Operations Research -- Oral History -- Organization, Coast Guard -- Organization of American States -- Ottawa Land Mine Treaty -- P -- Pakistan -- Panama -- Panama, U.S. Intervention in -- Pay, Military -- Peace Movements -- Peacekeeping -- Pentomic Era -- Persian Gulf War -- Personnel Evaluation -- Petraeus, David -- Philippines -- Philippines Insurrection -- Photography, Combat -- Physical Fitness -- Piracy, High Seas |
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Plans, Operational -- Plans, War -- Police, Military -- Political Science and International Relations -- Politics, Military Participation in -- Posse Comitatus Act -- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- Powell, Colin -- President as Commander in Chief -- Prisoners of War -- Prisons, Military -- Professionalism -- Propaganda -- Psychiatry, Military -- Psychological Warfare (PSYOP) -- Public Affairs, Military -- Public Opinion on War and the Military -- Q -- Quadrennial Defense Review -- R -- Radar -- RAND Corporation -- Rangers -- Rank -- Rape -- Rapid Deployment Force -- Raytheon -- Realism in International Relations -- Reconstruction -- Recreation -- Recruiting on College Campuses -- Recruitment, Enlisted -- Recruitment, Officer -- Red Cross, International Committee of -- Regiment -- Religion and War -- Research and Development -- Reserve, Air Force -- Reserve, Army -- Reserve, Marine Corps -- Reserve, Navy -- Retirement -- ROTC -- ROTC, Jr. -- Rules of Engagement -- Rumsfeld, Donald -- Russia -- Rwandan Genocide -- S -- Saudi Arabia -- Schelling, Thomas -- School of the Americas -- Science Applications International -- SEALs, Navy -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- Shock and Awe Offensive -- Single Integrated Operational Plan -- Slang, Military -- Small Unit Cohesion -- Society for Military History -- Sociology -- Soft Power -- Somalia -- Somalia Intervention -- South America -- Space -- Spanish-American War (1898) -- Special Forces, Air Force -- Special Forces, Army -- Special Forces, Marine Corps -- Special Forces, Navy -- Special Operations, Strategy -- Sports -- Squad Leadership -- Staff Relationships -- Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) -- Stealth Technology -- Stop-Loss -- Strategic Air Command -- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties -- Strategy, Air Power -- Strategy, Ground War -- Strategy, Naval -- Strategy, Nuclear -- Submarines -- Suicide -- Sun Tzu -- Support Groups for Military Spouses -- Surge, Iraq War -- Surgeon General, Air Force -- Surgeon General, Army |
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Surgeon General, Navy -- Surrender -- Syria -- T -- Tactics, Air -- Tactics, Covert -- Tactics, Ground Forces -- Tactics, Naval -- Taiwan -- Tanks -- Targeting Systems -- Technology -- Television -- Terrorism -- Textron, Inc. -- Thucydides -- Time, Military -- Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal -- Torpedoes -- Torture -- Total War -- Training, Air Force Enlisted -- Training, Air Force Pilots -- Training, Army Enlisted -- Training, Army Officers -- Training, Coast Guard Enlisted -- Training, Coast Guard Officers -- Training, Marine Corps Enlisted -- Training, Marine Corps Officers -- Training, Multinational -- Training, Naval Aviators -- Training, Naval Enlisted -- Training, Naval Officers -- Transportation, Air -- Trauma, Military Sexual -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Treason -- TRICARE (Military Health Plan) -- Turkey -- U -- Uniform Code of Military Justice -- Uniforms -- United Kingdom -- United Nations -- United Technologies Corporation -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- Upton, Emory -- Urban Guerrilla Movements -- U.S. Africa Command -- U.S. Air Force Academy -- U.S. Central Command -- U.S. Coast Guard Academy -- U.S. European Command -- U.S. Military Academy -- U.S. Naval Academy -- U.S. Naval Institute -- U.S. Northern Command -- U.S. Pacific Command -- U.S. Southern Command -- U.S. Special Operations Command -- U.S. State Department -- U.S. Strategic Command -- U.S. Supreme Court -- U.S. Transportation Command -- USA PATRIOT Act -- V -- Venezuela -- Veterans Affairs, Department of -- Veterans of Foreign Wars -- Vietnam War -- Virginia Military Institute -- Vo Nguyen Giap -- W -- War, Principles of -- War Dead, Disposition of -- War Films -- War in Afghanistan -- War of 1812 -- War Powers Act -- Warfare, Amphibious -- Warfare, Biological -- Warfare, Electronic -- Warfare, Submarine -- Warfare, Surface -- Warfare, Unconventional -- Warrior Culture -- Weapons, Antiaircraft -- Weapons, Chemical -- Weapons, Nonlethal -- Weapons, Nuclear -- Weapons, Space -- Weinberger-Powell Doctrine |
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Whistle-Blowing -- White House Military Office -- Women -- World War I -- World War II -- Wounds and Injuries -- Y -- Yamashita Precedent -- Appendix 1: Civil-Military Relations -- Appendix 2: Military Ideals -- Appendix 3: Laws of War: Major Treaties and Conventions -- Appendix 4: U.S. Supreme Court Cases -- Appendix 5: Military Organization -- Appendix 6: Military Casualties |
| Summary |
Provides a comprehensive, ready-reference on the organization, traditions, training, purpose, and functions of today's military. Entries 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 |
| Notes |
A Sage reference publication |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 6, 2022) |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- Encyclopedias
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HISTORY / Military / Other
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science
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Military art and science
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Piehler, G. Kurt, editor.
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Johnson, M. Houston, V.
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| ISBN |
9781452276328 |
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1452276323 |
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9781452276335 |
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1452276331 |
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9781784024642 |
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1784024643 |
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