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Author Chief of Army's Military History Conference (2010 : [Canberra])

Title Victory or defeat : armies in the aftermath of conflict : the 2010 Chief of Army History Conference / edited by Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey
Published [Newport, N.S.W.] : Big Sky Publishing, 2010

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Description xiii, 233 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm
Contents Preface -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Ken Gillespie -- Glorious defeat? : how the French remembered the armies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars / Alan Forrest -- Losing the insurgent twentieth century : the United State Army and reform after the Philippine-American War, 1902-1916 / David Silbey -- Lessons of defeat, lessons for war : the Ottoman Empire / Mustafa Aksakul -- How military tradition prevailed and reform failed to prevent the collapse of the Russian empire / John W. Steinberg -- British Army after the victories of 1918 and 1945 / G.C. Peden -- Germany Army after the Great War : a case study in selective self-deception / Geoffrey P. Megargee -- Liberating Australian New Guinea and British Borneo : the Directorate of Research and Post-Hostilities Planning, 1943-1945 / Graeme Sligo -- Hiroshima over Hanoi : the atomic battlefield in SEATO contingency planning, 1955-1965 / Damien Fenton -- Vietnam People's Army : victory at home (1975), success in Cambodia (1989) / Carlyle A. Thayer -- US Army in the aftermath of conflict / Henry G. Gole -- South African military and post-conflict integrations in the twentieth century / Ian van der Waag -- Index
Analysis Australian
Notes "Army History Unit"--T.p. verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes © Commonwealth of Australia
Subject Postwar reconstruction -- Congresses.
War -- Termination -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Dennis, Peter, 1945-
Grey, Jeffrey.
Australia. Department of Defence. Army History Unit.
ISBN 9780980814071
(Trade Paper)
Other Titles 2010 Chief of Army History Conference