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During World War II, tens of thousands of African Americans served in segregated combat units in U.S. armed forces. The majority of these units were found in the U.S. Army, and African Americans served in every one of the combat arms. They found opportunities for leadership unparalleled in the rest of American society at the time. Several reached the field grade officer ranks, and one officer reached the rank of brigadier general. Beyond the Army, the Marine Corps refused to enlist African Americans until ordered to do so by the president in June 1942, and two African American combat units were formed and did see service during the war. While the U.S. Navy initially resisted extending the role of African American sailors beyond kitchens, eventually the crew of two ships was composed exclusively of African Americans. The Coast Guard became the first service to integrate--initially with two shipboard experiments and then with the integration of most of their fleet. Finally, the famous Tuskegee airmen are covered in the chapter on air warfare. Proud Warriors makes the case that the wartime experiences of combat units such as the Tank Battalions and the Tuskegee Airmen ultimately convinced President Truman to desegregate the military, without which the progress of the Civil Rights Movement might also have been delayed.

This book discusses American-Egyptian relations from 1962 to the eve of the Six-Day War in June 1967. The author examines how the decline of diplomacy between the United States and Egypt endangered the Postwar Petroleum Order during the Lyndon B. Johnson years and led to the outbreak of the Six-Day War.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 -- Conducting Research in a COVID-19 Distressed Environment: An Introduction -- Introduction -- Organisation -- Conclusion -- Part I. Media, Communication and Information -- Chapter 2 -- An X-Ray Exposé of Health Communication on the Coronavirus pandemic in Zimbabwe's Print Media -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Media and Health Crises Communication -- Research Methodology -- Framing of COVID-19 in Zimbabwe's Print Media -- Conclusion -- References

U.S. Cavalry in the Mexican Punitive Expedition and World War I --Mechanization in the interwar U.S. Cavalry --"Traditionalists": proponents of the horse --"Modernizers": proponents of mechanization --"Pragmatists": attitudes among the army's future leaders --"Compromiser": Patton's approach to mechanization --U.S. Cavalry in World War II and the post-war U.S. Army.

Contents -- Series Editor Foreword -- Editor's Note and Preface -- List of Defined Terms -- Navigational Restrictions within the New Los Context: Geographical Implications for the United States -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- The Ocean Enclosure Movement -- Narrow International Ocean Waterways -- Ocean Navigation Routes of Particular Importance to the United States -- Transit Regions of the World -- A Regime of Navigational Inconsistencies for the Coming Decade and Its Potential Impacts on U.S. Interests -- Bibliography -- Index

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally representative survey in Ukraine according to their place of residence in 1986. The psychological effects of this nuclear disaster are large and persistent. More affected individuals exhibit poorer subjective well-being, higher depression rates and lower subjective survival probabilities; they rely more on governmental transfers as source of subsistence. We estimate the aggregate annual welfare loss at 6 - 8% of Ukraine's GDP highlighting previously ignored externalities of large-scale catastrophes.

Hauptbeschreibung: Die Verwaltung von Krisenregionen durch die internationale Gemeinschaft hat nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Unmittelbar vor den Toren der Europäischen Union finden sich zwei Beispiele dieser internationalen Territorialverwaltung moderner Prägung: Bosnien und Herzegowina sowie das Kosovo. Wenn Internationale Organisationen oder internationale Organe ein Gebiet verwalten, üben sie wie ein Staat Hoheitsgewalt aus. Insbesondere wenn eine solche Verwaltungsmission über einen längeren Zeitraum andauert, stellt sich die Frage, wo die rechtlichen Gr