The book presents international perspectives on language and community through a variety of themes. Mikulec, and Cu-Hullan Tsuyoshi McGivern, volume six sustains the society’s mission to organize and disseminate the work of its contributing members through peer-reviewed publications.
It also represents a testament to the professional work and vital contributions of frontier nurses.Ī Critical Examination of Language and Community is the sixth volume of the Readings in Language Studies series published by the International Society for Language Studies, Inc. In closing, it stresses the importance of explorig past nursing in order to better grasp present nursing. In addition, the book examines how the FNS shifted from a community/grass-roots structure to the corporate/business model of healthcare delivery employed today. The emerging themes include moral inhabitability in work/education environments, the generational mix, nurse-physician and male-female relationships at the workplace, the role of technology, humanitarian versus financial rewards, and the public image of nurses. These interviews also give a voice to the working and middle-class women of the FNS. The objective of the study presented here was to conduct interviews with former frontier and non-frontier nurses in order to better understand their family and personal relationships, and the experiences that motivated their career choices. The data was gathered from 2003 to 2007, and the historical part covers the years 1900 to 1970. This book provides a historical analysis of the Frontier Nursing Services in the Eastern Appalachians of the United States, as well as a review of the oral history tradition of former frontier and non-frontier nurses. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the Marines Corps, counterinsurgency warfare, military innovation, or strategic culture. This highly readable book reminds us of Sun Tzu’s wisdom that to be successful in war, it is important to know thyself as well as the enemy. Her findings challenge the conclusions of previous counterinsurgency scholarship that ignores culture. Johnson shows that even a service as self-aware and dedicated to innovation as the Marine Corps is constrained in the lessons-learned process by its own internal predispositions, by the wider US military culture, and by national preferences. Her findings break new ground in strategic culture by introducing a methodology that was pioneered in the intelligence community to forecast behavior. She then traces the history of the Marines’ counterinsurgency experience from the expeditionary missions of the early twentieth century, through the Vietnam War, and finally to the Iraq War. Johnson explores what makes this branch of the military distinct: their identity, norms, values, and perceptual lens.
The book begins with a fascinating and penetrating look inside the culture of the Marine Corps through research in primary sources, including Marine oral histories, and interviews with Marines.
Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of battlefield trial and error-but also a story of cultural collisions. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the Marine Corps’s long experience with counterinsurgency warfare. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation, culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences. The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight.