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General Resources World & US History Resources (internal) Reader's Companion Database • US Wars • US Mil History Topics • American History Modern History Sourcebook (primary docs) Dictionaries of Military Science Military History Portal (WWW-VL) • Richard Jensen • Open Directory • Patchogue-Medford Library • Military History Online • Air War College Gateway • Mil History • Index • Canadian Forces C&S College (cached) • Mil History Encyclopedia on the Web (Rickard) • eHistory.com • Archive • Images & Maps • Articles on Military History & Tactics • Bibliotheca (UK) • Links • Weapons & Warfare (all periods) • History of Warfare (KLMA) • About.com • Oxford Military History Companion • Arms and Influence (blog) • All World Wars (artices & photos) • OnWar.com US Mil History Portal (WWW-VL) • America's Wars (History Central) • The Millitary & War in America (SHSU) • Air War College • Infoplease (C³) • Oxford US Military History Companion • America At War (timelines) Harmon Memorial Lectures (military history) General History Resources (internal link) Canadian Military History (portal) • Index • Canadian Military Heritage (e-book) Air War College Resources • General History • Military History • Lessons Learned • Military Theory • Air University Bibliographies Military History Encyclopedia • Index • Wars, Campaigns, Treaties • Battles • Weapons • Timeline Educypedia: History • Warfare • WW I • WW II • Post-WWII Mil Ops Summaries (Global Security) Army Cntr of Military History • Online Bookshelf (by era) • Military Research on the Internet Army C&GSC MMAS Theses US Campaigns & Streamers: Army • Navy • Air Force • Summary US Army Combined Arms Research Center American Military History (book) American Military History (cached) American Military History (chronological) Online American History (textbook) Wars & Conflicts of the US (cached) US War Statistics (casualties) • Detailed • US War Casualties: (DoD S- pdf) • VA • War Casualties (military medicine essay) US OB - 1918-2002 (cached) Military History Online Military History (CFCSC: topic, period, war) The War Times Journal **** Military Affairs (journal) • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) Military History About.com Battlefield Anomalies History Central: America's Wars History Central: World History eHistory • Online books The World at War (portal) Historical Articles (Wargamer-extensive) EyeWitness to History (Narratives) • Chronological Index Education World - History 20th Century Wars Links OnWar.com Naval, Aviation & Military History List of Battles • Naval Battles 15 Decisive Battles (per Creasy) • e-book (Creasy, 1851) • alt • doc Decisive Battles & Intellectual Fashion (Creasy revisited) in History (21 battles) Top 10 Battles in History Decisive Battles Leaders & Battles Database Weapons & Warfare (Probert Encyclopedia - battles) Order of Battle Portal • US OB's Total Wars in History (examples) Battlefield Staff Rides (NA & Europe) The Price of Freedom: Americans At War • Contents War in the 17th Century War in the 18th Century Wars of the 19th Century • 19th Century Armies (Calvert) • Timeline of 19th Century Warfare (cached) • 19th Century America (TeaherOz portal) Wars of the 20th Century The World At War (Current Wars) Additional Resources National Security Archive (Geo. 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Glossaries Military Appreviations Military Jargon Jane's Glossary Operational Code Names	Online Books Internet Archive Books • Project Gutenberg • Scribd • Historical Texts • FullBooks.com • UPenn On-Line Books => Military History Books-On-Line (by subject) • USAF Pubs • Civil War • Military Science • Infantry • Air Warfare • Naval Forces Bartleby E-books: (Nonfiction) • Reference • Columbia Encyclopedia • Encyclopedia of World History (2001) A Short History of War • Images Reader's Companion: Military History • Alt: NetLibrary • Reader's Companion Book Index (cached) • American History Database Index (cached) • Reader's Companion to US History (cached) Oxford Companion to Military History Oxford Companion to US Military History National Security Archive Briefing Books Military History of the Western World (Fuller) eHistory (e-books) American History Texts (internal link) Makers of Modern Strategy (Google book) Encyclopedia of Marxism Joint Publocations Library (JCS) Jt Military Ops History (JCS, pdf) • Alt NDU Press • Cached • McNair Papers • Strategic Forum (e-books) USAF Historical Studies Office Pubs • By Title • By Author Harmon Memorical Lectures Air University Press • e-books (by format) US Army CMH: Books Online • More • Collections • Catalog of Pubs • WW II • More • The Staff Ride American Military History, Vol I (CMH, 2005) • Vol. II, 1917-2003 American Military History (CMH, 1989) Naval History & Heritage Cmd Pubs • Riverine Warfare: Naval Ops on Inland Waters Combined Arms Research Library • CARL Site Map • CARL Digital Library • Combat Studies Institute (CSI) Press • CSI Publications • Staff Rides Canadian Military Heritage (3 vols.) NetLibrary E-books • Access URL • US Military History, • Vol. 1 • Vol. 2 (20th c) • The French Wars, 1792-1815 • US Military Strategy (thru Civil War) • Civil War Firearms Historion.net • Great Britain and the American Civil War • On the Trail of Grant & Lee Europe In Retrospect (19th & 20th c, e-book) British War Bluebook History of Warfare (Keegan interview) RAND Publications: National Security • International Affairs U.S. Department of Defense Publications USMC Doctrine Publications US Armed Forces Manuals The Art of War, Sun Tzu (text) On War, Clausewitz (text) • Alt Online Journals & Magazines E-Journals (Georgia Tech Library) History Magazines (links) Military Magazines (links) Military History Magazines (links) Military History Magazines (indexes) Air Univ Index to Military Periodicals Military Journals Joint Pubs Military-related Libraries Columbia Intrn'l Affairs Online (CIAO) Military Journal Links Military.com Strategic & International Affairs Journals (portal) AccessMyLibrary (magazine articles) Air Force Journal of Logistics • Alt Air Force Magazine Archives • Historical Studies • Perspectives (articles by topic) • Keeper File Archive • Airpower Classics Airman Magazine • Archives Air Power History (index: FindArticles) • More • Articles (AccessMyLibrary: greyeagle) AU Review (index) Air & Space Power Journal (index) • Chronicles Online Journal Air & Space Magazine (archive) • Photos & Video • Military Aviation All Hands (US Navy) America In WW II (homefront articles) America's Civil War • Archive American Diplomacy American Heritage Magazine • Archive • Articles on War • More The American Interest (archive) Armed Forces Journal International Army magazine Army Aviation Digest Army History Army Logistician (archive) The Atlantic • Flashbacks • Archive (ProQuest) Aviation History Magazine Civil War Times • Archive Civil War History Magazine Coast Artillery Journal (1922-1948) Cultural Resource Management Magazine (NPS) Early American Review • Archive Field Artillery Magazine Flight Journal • Archive Foreign Affairs magazine Foreign Policy magazine • Archive • National Security blog Headquarters Gazette (Society for Military History) Historian Magazine (title index) Infantry Bugler (archive) Inter'l Journal of Naval History Joint Forces Quarterly (JFQ) Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal of Military History • Archive • JSTOR Archive • Expanded (GT only) Journal of Strategic Studies (issues list) Legion Magazine (Canadian military) Marine Corps Gazette Military Affairs (journal) • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) • Journal of the Am Mil Institute (JSTOR) • Journal of the Am Mil History Fndtn (JSTOR) Military History Magazine • Archives MHQ (Military History Quarterly) • Archives Miliary Officer (archives) Military Review (C&GSC) • Archive • Detailed • Full Archive, 2003-2006 (FindArticles) • Articles (AccessMyLibrary: greyeagle) • All Combined Arms Ctr Pubs Mission: History (Naval Order of the US) National Defense Magazine Naval Aviation News • WW II articles Naval Institute Magazines • Proceedings • Archive • Naval History Magazine Naval War College Review (archive) • Alt Navy Supply Corps Newsletter The New Republic (archives) Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs Parameters (Army War College) • Index Policy Review (Hoover Institute) Popular Science magazine (1870s-current) Prologue (National Archive magazine) Quartermaster Professional Bulletin • Archive Small Wars Journal Strategic Insights Magazine (Nav Postgrad Sch) Strategic Studies Institute (publications) Strategic Studies Quarterly (Air University) Studies in Intelligence (CIA) Undersea Warfare Magazine Vietnam Magazine • Archive War in History (journal) • Archive War Times Journal Portal The Washington Quarterly World War II Magazine • Archive • Issues H-Net (essays, reviews) • Reviews Books & Reviews Military Books Online Military History Book Catalog Military History Books (descriptions) Military Book Reviews Parameters Book Reviews	Map & Geography Resources Internet Map Archive • Military History • Wars, Battles & Revolutions World Historical Atlas • Another Old Maps Online • More Animated History Maps * * * * • Revolutionary War • Civil War • WW II Europe • WW II Pacific University of Texas Map Collection • Historical Maps • Military History • By Country • Battlefields & Historic Sites (NPS) • Alt Map of the Week Maps.com HRW World Atlas Online West Point Atlas • Reliable Alternative • Supplemental Material The World Factbook (CIA) World Statesman.org (geography, history, flags) Google Maps • Google Earth Centennia Online History Atlas World History Encyclopedia (maps) US History Maps (Allyn&Bacon/Longman)** Mil History Maps (Library of Congress) Eurpean History Maps (Temple Univ - excellent!) Military History Maps Historic & Battle Maps (e-History) Historical Atlas of Europe Antique Maps Naval Postgraduate School Maps • Military Maps NOAA Historical Maps World Historical Atlas [WHKMLA] • Europe 1815-2002 • France • Prussia • Germany 1812-Today • Italy • Vietnam 1470-1975 • Indochina Historical Atlas, 20th Century Historic Maps - B&W Animated Battles NDU Map Resources US Naval History Maps (cached) Civil War Electronic Maps Library of Congress Maps Online Battle Maps: WW I, WW II & Falklands WW II Map Resources • More • More • WW II: Europe (USMA) • WW II: Asia/Pacific (USMA) Vietnam War Maps (1:50K) • USGS L7014 1:50K Map Index Graphic • Vietnam War (USMA) Additional Map Resources CIAO Atlas (outline maps) Historic Overhead Imagery (FAS) TerraServer (overhead imagery) Military Geography for the Professional • Alt Map Symbol System (FM 101-5-1, detailed) • Combat Arms Basic Map Symbols • Alt • Alt WW I Map Symbols Map Symbol Fonts (PC) • More • Equipment Fonts Blank World Maps (different periods) Flags of the World Timelines Timeline Portal (Timelines.com) Timelines (e-History) Themed Timelines (Wikipedia) • More List of Human Time Periods Conflict & War Timelines (interactive) • More Timeline of Major Wars in History Mil History Timeline (1800-2000 - OnWar.com) • National Military History: A-D • E-K • L-R • S-Z • France • Germany • Great Britain (UK) • USA Mil History Timeline (300 BC- 1999 AD) List of Wars (Wikipedia) • Pike & Shot Era (to 1801) • Age of Rifles (19th century) • World War Era (20th century) WarData.net Military History Timeline (Rickard) Chronology of Military Events US Military Timeline (interactive) Timelines of American Wars Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century Early Gunpowder Weapons War Casualties Through the Ages Casualties in Major 20th C Conflicts Mortality in American Wars Dead & Wounded in US Wars • More (Congressional Research Service, pdf) Quotations & Maxims** Notable Quotes (by subject & author w sources) Bartlett's Quotations Quotations By Category The Quotations Page GIGA Quotations Wikiquotes Famous-Quote.net The Lessons of History • More American Rhetoric (speeches - audio) • Top 100 Speeches • By Decade Military Quotations • Menu • More • War Quotations • Artillery Quotations • USMC Quotations & Lore Quotations on Leadership Quotations on War (Wikiquotes) • Famous-Quote.net (gives source) • Giga-USA.com (by topic) • More • Some Worthwhile Quites • Pt. 2 • Bellum site • More (by author) • More • More • More • More • More • Antiwar.com • All the Best Quotes • War: Why bother? Words on War: Military Quotations (Google book) War & Peace Quotes • More • More Quotes on War, Violence & Power War: What is It Good For? (Barbara Ehrenreich) Military Maxima (bibliography) Pearls From War (humorous) • More • More • More Quotations About Marines Military Poems Quotations on History (Famous-Quote.net) • Giga-USA.com (by topic) • More • More • More • More Quotations by Historians Quotations on the Past Psychological Warfare Quotations Quotations on War, Peace & Politics Quotations on Military Logistics Quotations on War & Urban Ops Quotations on Technology Quotations of the Founding Fathers Jefferson on War & Peace • On Unavoidable Wars James Madison Quotations Lincoln on the real threat to America Maxims of Napoleon Military Maxims of Napoleon • Alt • Quotations Page • Military Quotes • Napoleon Guide • Wikipedia • Bellum Antoine de Saint-Exupery • More Clausewitz • More • More • More Quotations of Sun Tzu • More • More • On The Art of War • More • "All Warfare Is Based On Deception" (Sun Tzu) Samurai Quotations Theodore Roosevelt Quotations • More • More • "Man in the Arena" & full speech Quotations From WW II Winston Churchill (Wikiquote) • More • More • More • More • The Churchill Centre • Quotes • Finest Hour Online (e-mag) • Churchill's Major Speeches (lifetime) • Churchill Myths • Churchill Resources (LOC) • Wartime Speeches • "Their Finest Hour" (18 Jun 1940) • "The Few" (20 Aug 1940) • The British Bulldog (e-book, bio) • pdf • Iron Curtain Speech (5 Mar 1946) • Alt • Text, Audio, Video • Short Clip Eisenhower Quotations (Wikiquote) • More MacArthur Quotations (Wikiquote) MacArthur's Farewell (Congress, April 19, 1951) MacArthur's Farewell ( West Point, 12 May 62) • Text Sir Edmund Burke Sir Basil Henry Liddel-Hart George Santayana Theodore Roosevelt George Patton • More Adolph Hitler Neocon Quotations Opinions & Thoughts on Airpower Engineering Quotes Murphy's Laws of War Historic Documents Documents of US History American Historical Documents, 1000=1904 (Bartleby) Military History Documents World History Archives Historical Monographs (Columbia) History Documents (Army War College) Law, History & Diplomacy (Avalon Project)
The Characteristics of War Definitions:• War • Alt • Total War • Strategy • Military Science vs. Military Art History of War (Wikipedia) Military History (Wikipedia) Nature of War (Oxford Companion, US Mil History) Nature of War (von Molke the Elder) Marine Corps Doctrine Publications Warfighting (USMC, 1989 - pdf) Warfighting (MCPD 1, 1997) • pdf • Alt • The Nature of War • The Theory of War Commentary on Warfighting (2005 - pdf) Concise Theory of Combat (Naval PGS) The Long-Range Analysis of War An Overview of Military Conflict Causes of War • Conditions Influencing Liklihood of War (JSTOR) Case Studies: War & Resources Military Strategy & the Outbreak of War (empherical) Legal Analysis of Changes in War The State and War (Libertarian view) War: Normal State or Exception? Declaration of War • More Issues on US War Delaration • History of US Declarations of War Just War Theory Western Way of War Foundations of the Science of War (JFC Fuler, e-book) • pdf War Quotes • More Naming the World Wars On the Use of Force (articles, AF Mag) The Need to Define Victory Military-Industrial Complex: What Ike Said Military-Industrial Complex Myth (AF Mag) • Commentary on Ike's Speech Myth of Preemptive War (1995) Effects Based Operations (AF Mag) Beware of Boldness (Crane, 2006) • Comment USAF CADRE Essays • Characteristics of War • Three Levels of War • War: An Instrumrnt of Policy • Principles of War Instruments/Elements of National Power Instruments of National Power Elements of National Power (bibliography, NDU) • Bibliography (Army War College) Orchestrating the Instruments of Power • Instruments of National Power Diplomacy Milestones in US Diplomatiac History (DoS) • Timeline Foreign Relations of the United States (series) International Relations • More (Wikipedia) Encyclopedia of Am Foreign Policy • Alt • US Naval Diplomacy Foreign Policy Issue Papers (historic) US Treaties in Force Documents on Diplomacy (Avalon Project) The U.S. and Neutrality Coalitions & Alliances in US History US Foreign Relations to 1913 (Google book) US Foreign Policy Since 1897 (Google book) US Approach to Foreign Affairs (Whitcomb - e-book) Monroe Doctrine (1823) Treaty of Kanagawa (Japan, 1854) • Background • More • More American Approach to Foreign Policy Information Information Domain As An Element of National Power Information as Power (portal) Information/Ideology in War on Terror What is Propaganda? • More • History Propaganda in War (internal link) US Strategic Communication • Definitions US Nat Strategy: Public Diplomacy & Strat Comm DoD Drops "Strategic Communication" Term (Dec 12) US Public Diplomacy & Strat Comm After 9/11 Miliary Military Power as Instrument of Policy in 21st C Comprehensive National Power (concept) • Calculation Economic Economic Element of National Power Economics: EOP or Vulnerability? (p 157) • PDF Economic Warfare Economic Wargame Economic Warfare Against Japan 1940-41 Levels of War Levels of War (Oxford Comp to US Mil History) • FM 3-0 (w/ Levels of War diagram) • Strategic Level of War (definition) • Operational Level of War (definition) • Tactical Level of War (definition) Four Levels of War (The Air Campaign - Warden) Three Levels of War (USAF CADRE, pdf) Strategy & the Operational Level of War (pdf) • Part II (pdf) Operational Level of War (JSTOR) List of Military Operatons • WW II Operations Politics of War US Code Title 50: War & National Defense Evolution of US Political Parties The Constitution Society • Constitutional Defense The American Presidency Project • State of the Union Messages • Wilson (December 5, 1916) • Wilson (December 4, 1917) • FDR (January 6, 1942) • Nixon on War in Vietnam (November 3, 1969) • Executive Orders Presidential Doctrines Presidential Greatness & Warmaking Intelligence and the American Presidency Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century Presidential Power to Go to War (Feb 07) US Presidential Speeches Foreign Policy Research Institute Articles Center for Strategic & International Studies (CISS) Top 10 Presidential Errors (2006) Editorial Cartoons in History • Lesson Plans • War in American Political Cartoons (pdf) CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates Departmental Reorganization Act of 1918 War Powers Act of 1941 What Happened to Declarations of War? War Powers Resolution (1973) War Powers Resolution After Thrity Years Use of US Armed Forces Abroad (1798-2010) Principles of War Principles of War (Mil History Companion) Principles of War (CADRE, pdf) • Online lesson Air Univeristy Resources Principles of War (USAF CADRE - pdf) Principles of War (Clauseweitz) Principles of War (FM 3-0) • Alt Principles of War (Hackworth) Principles of War (AWC links) Nine Principles of War (list) Flexibility: 10th Principle • pdf History of Principles of War • Alt Flexibility as the 10th US Principle Principles of War (Clausewitz) Principles of War (Japanese) • pdf Strategic Principles of War, 21st C Info-based RMA & Principles of War	Total War Total War (Oxfiord Comp to Mil History, 2nd def) • Wikipedia • Britannica • Definition • Strategy in the Age of total War Examples of Total War (149 BC - 1945 AD) Anticipating Total War: German & US Experience • Review (JSTOR) US Origins of Total War 1860-1880 (Janda, 1995) The First Total War: Napoleonic Wars Total War in the US Civil War (internal link) Total War in South vs. Frontier (Grimsley) US Civil War & German Wars of Unification Was the Civil War a Total War? (Neely) • Alt Franco-Prussian War: Step Toward Total War "Total War I: The Great War" (Bourne) The Western Front & the Birth of Total War (BBC) Patterns of War Since the 18th Century (e-book) Power, Technology & Total War (French views) The Conduct of War, 1789-1961 (Fuller, e-book) • Review (JSTOR) • More • More • More • More The Age of Total War, 1860-1945 (GoogleBook) Great War, Total War ... 1914-1918 (German view) A World at Total War ... 1937-1945 (German view) WW II as Total War (European Home Fronts) Lethality & Casualty Trends • Weapon Lethality & Dispersion (graphic) Road to Total War (WW II bombing) Air Power and the Logic of Mass Destruction Strategic Bombing in WW II Low Intensity Conflict USMC Small Wars Portal • Definition & Small War List • Past Small Wars • History The Small Wars Manual (USMC, 1940) Why the Strong Lose (Parameter, 2005) Irregular War Insurgency • Counterinsurgency Counterinsurgency Portal (Air War College) Small Wars Journal Theory & Practice of Insurgency & COIN (Bernard Fall) Counterinsurgency Scorecard: 1981-2011 (RAND) • Case Studies: 1978-2008 (RAND) Fighting Insurgencies (Foreign Affairs, 2009) Is there a future for Counterinsurgency? (2007) The End of Counterinsurgency? (Startfor, Jun 12) US Interagency Counterinsurgency Initiative Guerrilla Warfare Origins of Guerrilla Doctrine (1982) US Army & Irregular Warfare (e-book) Counterinsurgency Ops (JP 3-24, Oct 09 - pdf) • Discussion (Dec 06) ; • More (w link to FM3-24) Urban Operations (JP 3-06, Nov 09 - pdf) Cultural Barriers to COIN (Jeffrey Record, 2006) Role of Airpower in Counterinsurgency Airpower in French Colonial Wars • Portuguese Wars Evolution of US COIN Doctrine (Crane, 2006) • pdf Irregular Warfare Conference (Oct 06 - slides) Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for COIN COIN Warfare: Theory & Practice (Galula 1964) • Review Savage Wars of Peace (book review, 2003) Fighting a Global COIN (Donnelly & Serchuk, 2003) Patterns of Insurgency & COIN (Lynn, 2005) Best Practices in COIN (Mil Review, 2005) Principles, Imperatives & Paradoxes of COIN (Mil Review, 2006) Learning COIN: Observations From Iraq (Mil Review, 2006) Lsns From a Successful COIN (Philippines, 1899-1902) COIN in Iraq: Lessons From Philippine War Lessons from the Philippine War Managing COIN; Lessons From Malaya (Mil Review, 2007) • Alt Phase IV Ops: Where Wars Are Won (Crane, 2005) Military Writings of Mao Tse-tung • On Protracted War • Alt • Strategy in Revolutionary War Guerrilla Tactics in Vietnam Civic Action: USMC Experience in Vietnam Why Great Powers Fight Small Wars So Badly Vietnam ('60s) vs. Afghanistan ('80s) (video) • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 Counterinsurgency Reader (Army Combined Arms Ctr-2006) • Counterinsurgency Reader II (2008) • Essential Readings Commander's COIN Guidance-Iraq (Patraeus-Fall 08-pdf) Conterinsuregency in Iraq & Afghanistan (2012) Doctrine, Guerrilla Warfare & Counterinsurgency Lessons of History Why Study War (Hansen) Quotations: Lessons of History • More Lessons of History (Harold James, pdf) • Alt Lessons of History (Wm Urban) The Lessons of History (Michael Howard, 1982) • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) Why Don't We Learn From History? (B.H. Liddell Hart) • The Significance of Military History How Do We Learn From History? (AHA) History as a Way of Learning • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) Lessons Learned (video summaries, CFR) Foreign Policy Lessons From History Lessons of the Roman Empire for America British Experience in Iraq (1917) Lessons from the Thirties (JSTOR) D-Day and the Lessons of History Lessons of History for Invaders Defining the Lessons of History On History (Peter Landry) The Lessons of History (Durant & Durant) North Korea & The Lessons of History Edmund Burke on the Lessons of History Reflections on the Lessons of History The Four Lessons of History (Charles A. Beard) • Alt The Cultural Approach to the Hisotry of War • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) Lessons Learned From War Civil War: Decline of the Decisive Battle • pdf Why the North Won the Civil War • More Lessons Learned By Europe (JSTOR) Lessons from the Philippine War • More Lessons of Russo-Japanese War Lessons of he Forgotten War (Haig on Korea) Lessons From History: Vietnam & Iraq Iraq War: Will We Learn From History? Lessons Learned: Modern Urban Combat (FM 3-06.11) Nothing Less Than Victory (Lewis, Google book) Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions (Google book) American's Changing Self-Perceptions McNamara's 11 Lessons from Vietnam • Fog of War (Google videos download) Never Fight A Land War In Asia (Stratfor, Mar 11) • MacArthur • More • Viscount Bernard Montgomery • More • SecDef Robert Gates (Feb 2011) Army Center for Lessons Learned (report index)	American Way of War Constitution of the United Staets of America Lincoln on the real threat to America U.S. Army Campaigns • Streamers Wars & Conflicts of the US Navy (list & streamers) The American Military System (CMH) • The American Army, 1775-1917 US Global Defense Posture, 1783-2011 (RAND) • Key Findings • Recommendations The Duality of the American Military Tradition • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) History of the National Guard American Way of War (Oxford Com to Mil History) Foundations of the American Army (CMH, 2005) • The Question of a Peacetime Army • Civilian Control • The Militia The Army and the Nation (FM 7-21.13) American Military Experience (Shy, 1971) America's Distinctive Way of War (WSJ, 2011) Early American Way of War (Higginbotham, 1987) Early American Ways of War 1600-1815 War Making on the Frontier (1607-1814) Washington & Tradition of Civilian Control • Newburgh Conspiracy (1783) Jefferson's Gunboat Navy Jefferson on the Need For a Navy Jefferson & Hamilton: Need for Standing Army Jefferson on a Standing Military Jefferson & US Maritime Defense Policy Establishment of US Military Academy (1802) Constitutional Roots Constitution Basis: Military & War Powers 10 USC: Organization & General Military Powers The Federalist Papers (complete texts) War Powers and the Supreme Court US National Guard (history & laws) What is a Standing Army? Quotations on Standing Armies • On Militia • 2nd Amendment & Standing Armies Militia and the Standing Army State Militias & the US (AF Law Review) Milita, Standing Armies & 2nd Amendment Debate on a Standing Army (1798-1800) Militia Act of 1792 • Text • Alt Militia Act of 1903 (Dick Act) • United States National Guard Current Milita Legislation (Title 10 U.S.C. 311) • Alt For Standing Armies (Clausewitz On War, Ch. 5) • Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations, CH. 1) Against Standing Armies (Thomas Jefferson) • Jefferson's Call for Universal Service • James Madison quoations • More • Jacob G. Hornberger • Reason Magazine (review of book by Gart Hart, c. 1998) • More Reviews Madison: Raising An Army, 1812 (lesson plan) Second Amendment Issues Origin & Meaning of Right to Bear Arms • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) U.S. v. Miller (Text: intent of 2nd Amendment, 1939) • Discussion Commentary: Original Intent of 2nd Amendment • More Commentary • Historic Roots Commas in the Second Amendment • English Professor Anaylzes 2nd Amendment Quotations on 2nd Amendment • More The American Citizen-Soldier, 1775-1861 • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) Citizen-Soldiers or Regulars: Views on Military Establishment 1775-1781 • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) Reorganizing the Army (post-Spanish-American War) American Isolationism & Expansionism (JSTOR) US Non-Intervention American Way of War Today Eagle' Talons: American Experience at War (e-book) War & the Military in America (SHSU) • Links American Grand Strategy - American Foreign Policy (1996) New American Way of War (Jeff Record, 2002) American Way of War and Peace in Comparative Perspective (Wilson & Lyall) • pdf Top 100 Rules: New American Way of War • Alt American Way of War (Cebrowski & Barnett, Jan 03) Technological War: Reality & American Myth War at the Millennium (internal link) The Wars of America (syllabus, Rutgers) Airpower: American Way of War (Atlantic, Jun 02) New American Way of War (Foreign Affairs, 2003) American Way of War or Way of Battle? (2004) Toward An American Way of War (2004) • pdf Primer: Paradox of the American Way of War Paradox of "New American Way of War" (2004) Why America Fails to Win the Peace (2006, pdf) History of US War Powers (Mil Law Review, 93) What Happened to Declarations of War? Who Takes Us to War? (Krauthammer, Jun 11) The American Way of War Revisited (Linn, 2002) • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) Trends in American Major War & Peace (1983) • Full Article (JSTOR: GT only) National Style in Strategy (Colin Gray) War is a Racket (e-book) • Smedley Butler • Background on book Eisenhower: Military-Industrial Complex Weinberger Doctrine (internal link) How American Regrads Its Warriors Why We Serve (Colin Powell, 6 Nov 11) American Way of War: Post-Cold War Austerity and the End of American Intervention U.S. Flag Officers (numbers & rules) US Army Commanding Generals and CoSs
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