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" Learning Asymmetric War: "
Hagstrom, Jacob N.
Dierks, Konstantin
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1106451
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TLpq2394419858
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Dierks, Konstantin
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Hagstrom, Jacob N.
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Learning Asymmetric War:\ Hagstrom, Jacob N.Dierks, Konstantin
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Indiana University
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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243
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Manuscript sources from politicians and army officers, along with printed evidence such as memoirs and the Army and Navy Chronicle periodical, provide abundant examples of military learning in the early 19th century. Yet existing scholarship suggests that United States officers did not learn from the wars of Indian Removal because they held a low opinion of Native Americans. My research upends older works by exploring a wide range of efforts to learn and adapt during the era of the Second Seminole War. The conflict resulted in distinct kinds of lessons. First, both U.S. and indigenous agents learned to deal with a harsh environment in Florida. In addition, all sides learned the value of diplomacy and the importance of recruiting allies. Furthermore, army leaders recognized a mobility gap between U.S. forces and Native Americans. As a result, the War Department funded educational trips to France for seven officers from 1839–1841 in order to reform the army’s most mobile branch, the cavalry, to be more effective in Indian Country. French-educated officers produced a new manual that introduced small-unit drills and marksmanship training to the U.S. However, Americans did forget many hard-won lessons at the end of the Second Seminole War. Veterans produced conflicting messages in their memoirs, and popular authors appropriated veterans’ claims after the war that split based on divergent attitudes toward slavery.
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American history
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Military history
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Native American studies
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