The Us Air Force After Vietnam: Postwar Challenges and Potential for Responses - Softcover

Mrozek, Donald J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1410200329 ISBN 13: 9781410200327

Publisher: Univ Pr of the Pacific, 2002

Synopsis

This book explains who Florence Nightingale was and describes the work that she did. Her role in the hospitals at Scutari during the Crimean War is examined, together with the campaigning she did for better health care in Britain. This text is suitable for Key Stage 1 (age 5-7) History National Curriculum and Schemes of Work. Florence Nightingale is a unit title in the History Schemes of Work for Year 2.

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From the Publisher:

In this study, Dr. Donald J. Mrozek probes various groups of Americans as they come to grips with the consequences of the Vietnam War. He poses far more questions than he answers, and some of what he says may invite strong dissent. Yet it will serve its author's purpose if something here provokes creative thinking and critical reexamination, even of some long-cherished ideas. Viewing the Vietnam War as a logical outcome of American defense thinking has challenging implications, as does seeing the "cold war consensus" on foreign affairs as an oddity.

Yet this is not a litany of objection and protest. For example, Doctor Mrozek raises serious questions about how the contemporary notion of deterrence has emerged; and dealing with such questions forthrightly could make deterrence more effective. So, too, questioning the past relationship of military professionals with the mass media is not an assignment of guilt but an invitation to develop a beneficial and cooperative relationship. Nor is this study a tale of gloom and despair; it is rather an appeal for self-consciousness and self-awareness. It is a plea for us to take command of the problems that beset us by taking control of ourselves first.

Sidney J. Wise Colonel, United States Air Force Commander, Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of the Pacific
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1410200329
• ISBN 13: 9781410200327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144