Place-names of Northern Ireland by Kay Muhr

Place-names of Northern Ireland by Kay Muhr

Colonel Pat Proctor's long overdue critique of the Army's preparation and outlook in the all-volunteer era focuses on a national security issue that continues to vex in the twenty-first century: Has the Army lost its ability to win strategically by focusing on fighting conventional battles against peer enemies? Or can it adapt to deal with the greater complexity of counterinsurgent and information-age warfare?

In this blunt critique of the senior leadership of the U.S. Army, Proctor contends that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. Army stubbornly refused to reshape itself in response to the new strategic reality, a decision that saw it struggle through one low-intensity conflict after another--some inconclusive, some tragic--in the 1980s and 1990s, and leaving it largely unprepared when it found itself engaged--seemingly forever--in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The first book-length study to connect the failures of these wars to America's disastrous performance in the war on terror, Proctor's work serves as an attempt to convince Army leaders to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

Kay Muhr, , Liam ü¾Œ¶¼ hAisibü¾Ž–”¼il, National University of Ireland, Galway

Kay Muhr read Celtic Studies at Edinburgh and gained a PhD from the same university. After postgraduate fellowships in Cambridge, Dublin and Queen's University Belfast, she became a research fellow on the Ordnance Survey Memoir project in Queen's University's Institute for Irish Studies. She was
Senior Research Fellow of the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project in Irish & Celtic Studies in Queen's from its foundation in 1987 until 2010. She is the author of vol. 6 in the Place-Names of Northern Ireland series, an introduction to local place-name study called Celebrating Ulster's Townlands,
and joint author (with Patrick McKay) of Lough Neagh Places: Their Names and Origins (2007). She has been president of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and chairman of the Ulster Place-Name Society (www.ulsterplacename.org).

Liam ü¾Œ¶¼ hAisibü¾Ž–”¼il is a Lecturer in Irish and Celtic Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His teaching and research interests include onomastics and medieval Irish literature. He has spent periods of research with the Locus Project
at University College, Cork, as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge University, and as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Glasgow. He is a member of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland and of the International Council of
Onomastic Sciences.

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ISBN 13	9780853895718
ISBN 10	0853895716
Title	Place-names of Northern Ireland
Author	Kay Muhr
Series	Place-Names Of Northern Ireland S
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Institute of Irish Studies
Year published	1996-10-01
Number of pages	444
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