Browsing by Author "Herwig, Holger H."

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    Hungary, Budapest and the Food Crisis of the great war, 1914-1918
    (2003) Riez, Monika Lysianassa; Herwig, Holger H.
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    Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler’s War Against Caribbean Oil
    (University of Calgary Press, 2014) Bercuson, David J.; Herwig, Holger H.
    Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig examine the story behind Operation Neuland, the German plan to interrupt vital oil supplies from reaching the United States and the United Kingdom by preventing Allied oil tankers from leaving refineries in the Caribbean. The story begins in February 1942 and follows this German attempt to scuttle the Allied war machine through to the end of the war. Told largely from the German perspective, it details the planning and execution of the Germans and the diplomatic, political, and military responses of the Allies, particularly the United States, to overcome the German effort.
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    Post-Somalia Reform in the Canadian Armed Forces: Leadership, Education, and Professional Development
    (2018-12-10) Domansky, Katie; Bercuson, David Jay; Herwig, Holger H.; Keeley, James F.; Hiebert, Maureen S.; Horn, Bernd
    After the “Somalia Affair” of the early 1990s, a government investigation concluded that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) had become dysfunctional as a professional military force and needed to be comprehensively reformed. It was perceived to be a deeply-flawed institution whose soldiers were ill-prepared, without discipline, and lacking leadership, leading to systemic breakdown and pointing clearly to an inappropriate organizational culture. The subsequent reform movement initiated by the government in 1997 to address these perceived problems covered a range of issues, but a critical focus was the need to redress the failure of military leadership, alter the way in which the Canadian military perceives of itself as a professional organization, and to inculcate an ethos appropriate to the CAF. This dissertation analyzes that reform process, applying concepts of military innovation and change, organizational culture, and organizational learning to determine which factors had the greatest influence on the introduction and process of change in the post-Somalia context. It assesses the degree to which the reforms specifically dedicated to officer training, education, and professional development have been implemented and the impact they have had on the CAF as an institution. Ultimately, it concludes that the CAF is a fundamentally different institution today than it was when the post-Somalia reform program was first launched. This is undoubtedly a result of its engagement with the reforms and efforts made to introduce new concepts, values, narratives, and behaviours into CAF practices, procedures, and expectations. While it is still not clear that the CAF has completely institutionalized all of the intended changes, a shift in culture has occurred, improvements can be identified, and the process of change and introspection remains ongoing.
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    Pursuing the moral state: the abolition of regulated prostitution and the German woman's movement before the first world war
    (1996) Roth, Nadine L.; Herwig, Holger H.
    The first women's campaign against regulated prostitution in Germany (1880- 1886) was a response to both the rapid increase in prostitution in Germany and the inspiration of Josephine Butler's British repeal campaign. The German movement, led by Gertrud Guillaume-Schack, allowed women to question the social, political, and legal inequalities of their society and express a demand for an elevation of women's economic and social position. This campaign reflected both the German bourgeoisie's concern about moral disintegration and a sense of gender identity which supported a temporary alliance between bourgeois and proletarian women. The campaign effectively ended when the working women's associations sponsored in part by the antiregulationists were banned and Guillaume-Schack herself deported from Germany; however, abolitionism continued to exercise an important influence within the German women's movement.
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    Redefining the naval seascape: the emergence of the torpedo boat
    (2009) Zeller, Joseph; Herwig, Holger H.
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    Sea-Based Air Power and Maritime Expeditionary Operations: U.K. Limited Naval Aviation Capability in the 1982 Falklands War
    (2014-07-09) Reumkens, Brock J.; Herwig, Holger H.
    Following Argentina’s seizure of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on 2 and 3 April 1982, the United Kingdom’s military response to reclaim these overseas territories was the launching of a large maritime expeditionary operation extending over 8,000 miles into the harsh South Atlantic. As part of this challenging military undertaking, an extensive naval Task Force was assembled and despatched to the theatre of operations. Since the greatest threat to the Task Force would come from the numerically superior Argentine aircraft based on the South American mainland, air power would play a critical role in the successful prosecution of Operation Corporate. However, geography precluded the continuous and effective involvement by land-based aircraft of the Royal Air Force in the South Atlantic. Therefore, the task of providing the U.K.’s maritime expeditionary operation with the requisite air power fell to a small number of carrier-based fixed-wing aircraft. In total, 28 Sea Harriers of the RN’s Fleet Air Arm and ten Harrier GR.3s of the RAF carried aboard two small, non-fleet aircraft carriers were called upon to support Operation Corporate. By 14 June 1982, Argentine forces on the Falklands surrendered to the U.K., thus bringing to a close a unique military campaign at the bottom of the world. This thesis argues that, despite its inability to achieve permanent air supremacy or superiority, RN and RAF sea-based air power during the 1982 Falklands War was nevertheless a crucial contributing factor in the victory over Argentina due to its effective support of the U.K.'s maritime expeditionary operation.
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    Setting the demon free: Karl Haushofer, Rudolpf Heb, the Thule Society and Hitler in Munich, 1918-1920
    (2002) McGaha, Richard L.; Herwig, Holger H.
    This study is an examination of the links between Karl Haushofer, Rudolf He~, the Thule Society and Adolf Hitler in Munich from 1918-1920. These links are crucial to understanding the early years of the Nazi Party and the formation of Hitler's ideology. The first chapter will examine the cultural climate of Munich which set the tone for the rise of the Nazi Party. The second chapter will examine the lives of Karl Haushofer, Rudolf He~, and Rudolf Freiherr von Sebottendorff, head of the Thule Society. This examination will show that the influences on their lives made them susceptible to the messages emanating from the right. Chapter three will tell the tale of the Battle of Munich, which is the crucial moment in Munich society following the end of the First World War. Chapter four will examine the links between Haushofer, He~, Sebottendorff and Hitler to fill in the gaps in the historical record.
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    Struggling against inferiority: German army policy, 1890-1914
    (2010) Wiens, Gavin J.; Herwig, Holger H.
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    The German jet program 1939-1945
    (1999) Pavelec, Sterling Michael; Herwig, Holger H.
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    The nazi submarine blockade: a near victory of economic warfare?
    (2007) Weir, Erin M. K.; Ferris, John R.; Herwig, Holger H.
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    The paradox of Canada's regional engagement: rethinking Canadian defence strategy in the Asia-Pacific region
    (2003) Bullock, Christopher R.; Huebert, Robert; Herwig, Holger H.
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    The royal Hungarian army's modernization efforts (1932-1936): the consequence of schism and paralysis in neo-baroque Hungary
    (2005) Raffai, Richard; Herwig, Holger H.
    The conservative aristocracy and the Right Radicals dominated the Counterrevolutionary Era (1919-1945) of Hungarian history. Their ideologies and outlook were founded on the "injustice" of the Treaty of Trianon and Hungary's post-war national collapse. As such, both factions identified the restoration of "Greater Hungary" as interwar Hungary's chief policy. At the same time, however, these two factions represented two very dissimilar groups, resulting in an era defined by two unstable, contradictory and diverging ideologies. The conflicting nature of these two responses eventually resulted in a schism between the two factions. Consequently, the strategies meant to realize Hungary's policy proved as irreconcilable as the two factions themselves. Fueled by inter-war Hungary's social and economic conditions, this schism created an environment of division and paralysis. This development engulfed Hungarian society and, consequently, the Royal Hungarian Army.
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