Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826215351 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Tony R. Mullis is a member of the International Security and Military Studies Department at the United States Air Force, Air University, Air Command and Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama. He is also History Adjunct for the Montgomery campuses of Auburn University and Troy State University.
Tony R. He is also History Adjunct for the Montgomery campuses of Auburn University and Troy State University.. Mullis is a member of the International Security and Military Studies Department at the United States Air Force, Air University, Air Command and Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama
Army long before the second half of the twentieth century. Given Americans’ misgivings about a standing army and their limited expectations for it as a domestic peacekeeper, its use in this fashion during the 1850s was a delicate proposition.By drawing on diverse sources, including official army correspondence, personal papers of key military and political leaders, and local accounts of army activities, Mullis shows how peace operations were conducted by the U.S. In Peacekeeping on the Plains, Tony R. Army to conduct a series of peace operations in the newly formed Kansas and Nebraska territories. Historians have written on “Bleeding Kansas” and on the frontier army as a constabulary force, but little scholarship exists on how the army performed its peacekeeping operations in the 1850s. Peacekeeping on the Plains will provide any reader with a better i