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Author Clune, John V., 1973- author.

Title The Abongo abroad : military-sponsored travel in Ghana, the United States, and the world, 1959-1992 / John V. Clune
Published Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Cold War in Global Perspective
Contents Modernization ideology and the United States Military Assistance Program -- Independent and international: Ghana's national military and American assistance policy -- Writing for peace: international men and women of the Ghana Armed Forces -- "I think they would be better off if we took them on a tour of Disney World": continuity and change in international military education and training
Summary How the Cold War strategy of military education and training sponsored by the United States led to an alternate global identity for some Ghanaian families
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Military assistance, American -- Ghana
Educational exchanges -- United States
Educational exchanges -- Ghana
Military education -- United States.
Military education -- Ghana
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
Armed Forces.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African
Educational exchanges.
Military assistance, American.
Military education.
Military relations.
SUBJECT United States -- Military relations -- Ghana
Ghana -- Military relations -- United States
Ghana -- Armed Forces -- United States
Subject Ghana.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826521538
0826521533