U.S. Security Issues and World War I
Contributing Authors
Shawn McAvoy
B.D. Mowell
Raluca Viman-Miller
Terri Blom Crocker
Ashlee Beazley
Seyed Hamidreza Serri
Jonathan S. Miner
Thomas I. Faith
Jonathan A. Beall
Keith D. Dickson
Charles Sorrie
Editors
Dr. Craig Greathouse
Dr. Austin Riede
ISBN
978-1-959203-04-9
Print Version
$24.99
Loaded with fresh perspectives, U.S. Security Issues and World War I offers significant, research-fueled commentary on key American policy and military decisions leading up to and during the Great War.
After many years of stubborn Isolationism and heated debate, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany in early April, 1917. This decision rocketed the country into one of the fiercest conflicts to date, triggering a widespread reorganization of the European continent afterward. U.S. Security Issues and World War I is a fascinating essay collection featuring top WWI experts and researchers who explore the tempestuous atmosphere of American politics leading up to the war, the personal and public complexities driving our key political and military leaders, the ethical battle over poison gas in an already deadly conflict, and the tensions between freedom of the press and protecting troop movements in the theatres of war.
Split in two parts covering domestic security and international wartime issues, the collection leads readers through President Woodrow Wilson’s fraught experience in office and controversial policy decisions, through the wartime experience on the home front–including Anti-German sentiment and impacts from the 1917 Espionage Act, to the battlefield experience and complex power dynamics between American General John Pershing, British Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, and French Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre.
Thoughtfully developed as an additional source on key topics from the American WWI experience, U.S. Security Issues and World War I seeks to shed new light on the forgotten corners of this gruesome conflict. The essays in this collection coalesce to form a vital, multi-faceted discussion on the most influential war of the twentieth century, the impacts of which still echoe into modern international policy decisions.
Dr. Craig Greathouse, Professor of Political Science, earned a PhD in political science with specialties in international relations and comparative politics from Claremont Graduate School. He received his Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Akron. A member of the University of North Georgia faculty since 2007, Dr. Greathouse has published on topics addressing European foreign policy, Security and Defense policy, Strategic Culture, Strategic Thought, International Relations theory, and Cyber War. He is a member of the control staff for the National Security Decision Making Game and runs simulations for diverse groups ranging from gaming conventions such as Dragon Con to the National Defense University.
Dr. Austin Riede is a professor specializing in British modernism. He went to The Ohio State University for both his B.A. and M.A. degrees in English and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. He has published articles on Ford Madox Ford's novels The Good Soldier and Parade's End, Vera Brittain's WWI memoir Testament of Youth, the elegiac wartime poetry of W.B. Yeats, Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel Sunset Song, and David Jones's epic WWI poem In Parenthesis. Dr. Riede teaches British Literature II, Modern and Contemporary British Literature, Victorian Literature, Science Fiction, Horror, Literature and Film, and Composition at the University of North Georgia.
