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General Resources World & US History Resources (internal) Reader's Companion Database • US Wars • US Mil History Topics • American History American History Lecture Portal (C-SPAN) • Listing w/ Links to Lecture/Video Digital History ** Modern History Sourcebook (primary docs) Dictionaries of Military Science Mil History Encyclopedia on the Web (Rickard) • Military History Portal (Olive-Drab) • Military History Online • Air War College Gateway • Mil History • Index • Air University Library • Research Guides • Canadian Forces C&S College (cached) • eHistory.com • Archive (c 2008) • Images & Maps • Weapons & Warfare (all periods) • History of Warfare (KLMA) • About.com • Oxford Military History Companion • All World Wars (artices & photos) • OnWar.com • Warfare History Network • WW II The Millitary & War in America (SHSU, readings) • Air War College • Infoplease (C³) • Oxford US Military History Companion • America At War (timelines) Harmon Memorial Lectures (military history) General History Resources (internal link) Air War College Resources • General History • Military History • Lessons Learned • Military Theory • Air University Bibliographies Military History Encyclopedia on the Web • 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 (internal) Army C&GSC MMAS Theses US Campaigns & Streamers: Army • Navy • Air Force • Summary American Military History (book) American Military History (cached) 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) 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 of the World (Creasy) • e-book (Creasy, 1851) • alt • doc • Creasy revisited (c 1988) Turning Points in History (21 battles) Top 10 Battles in History Decisive Battles Leaders & Battles Database Weapons & Warfare (Probert Encyclopedia) Order of Battle Portal • U.S. OB's (1917-2002) 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) Wars of the 20th Century • Essays & Analysis on Modern War ** The World At War (Current Wars) Research Resources** National Archives (NARA) • NARA Databases National Digital Library (LOC) • Online Collections National Security Archive Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA) • AFHRA Data Base • USAF Guide to Historiacal Literature (1943-1983) USMA Department of History Defense Technical Information Center • Format AWC Military History Links Combat Studies Institute US Army C&GSC Papers Leavenworth Papers Military History (NPS resources) • WW II • Vietnam War Historical Articles (Wargamer Mag) The Classics Archive Life Magazine Covers Universal Library (CMU) Artchive William Lind Archive Web Gallery of Art Air History Videos Imperial War Museum Photos • DB Photo Sources/Archives Historical Picture Collections Military Info/Pubs Links Military Images (NDU) GlobalSecurity: Military Operations Military History Web Ring Hub Military Book Reviews Spartacus Resources Library of Congress Oral Histories Veterans History Project Military History Reading List Mil History Readings (Army C&GSC) Paperless Archive (documents, fee) Alpelphi Papers (IISS) • doc Miscellaneous Topics Medal of Honor War Correspondents History of US Special Ops U.S. Veteran Statistics Women In War Evolution of the US Uniform What is Khaki? Glossaries Military Appreviations Military Jargon Jane's Glossary Operational Code Names Return to Top	Online Books Internet Archive Books • Project Gutenberg • Scribd • Historical Texts • FullBooks.com • UPenn On-Line Books => Military History e-History (Ohio State U) 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 • Index • Images Oxford History of Modern War (pdf) War, Peace & Intern'l Relations (Gray) Reader's Companion: Military History • Reader's Companion Book Index (cached) • American History Database Index (cached) • Reader's Companion to US History (cached) Oxford Companion to Military History • Alt Oxford Companion to US Mil History • Alt Oxford Companion to World War II National Security Archive Briefing Books Mil History of the Western World (Fuller) Guide to Nat Security Policy & Strategy Orchestrating the Instruments of Power eHistory (e-books) American History Texts (internal link) Makers of Modern Strategy (e-book) Encyclopedia of Marxism Joint Publications Library (JCS) Jt Military Ops History (JCS, pdf) • Alt U.S. Department of Defense Publications USMC Doctrine Publications US Armed Forces Manuals Defense Technical Information Center • Format NDU Press • Books (cached) • Joint Forces Quarterly (JFQ) • McNair Papers • Strategic Forum (e-books) USAF Historical Studies Office Pubs • By Title • By Author • Pubs w/ annotations, by title • by author • Popular Topics in Air Force History • More • Significant Operations • More • Topics of Interest Harmon Memorial Lectures Air University Press (books) • e-books • Fairchild papers • CADRE Papers US Army Center for Military History • Books Online • Monographs • Research • Publications • By Title • WW II • More Army C&GSC MMAS Theses American Military History, Vol I (CMH, 2005) • Vol. II, 1917-2003 American Military History (CMH, 1989) The Staff Ride (US Army CMH) • Staff Rides Combined Arms Research Library (lessons learned) Combat Studies In US Navy History Pubs • Index • By War USMC Publications Search RAND Publications: National Security • By Topic • International Affairs Historion.net • On the Trail of Grant & Lee Europe In Retrospect (19th & 20th c, e-book) British War Bluebook History of Warfare (Keegan interview) The Art of War, Sun Tzu (text) On War, Clausewitz (text) • Alt • Analysis of translations • Clausewitz Condensed Online Journals & Magazines 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 • Special Collections • In More Depth (articles by topic) • Keeper File Archive • Airpower Classics Airman Magazine • Operational Topics Air Power History (index: FindArticles) • More AU Index to Military Periodicals (slow) • Air & Space Power Journal and AU Review (archives) • Chronicles Online Journal (1998-2009) Air & Space Magazine (archive) • Photos & Video • Military Aviation All Hands (US Navy) America In WW II (home front 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 magazine Army Logistician (archive) The Atlantic • Flashbacks • Archive 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 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(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 • Archive Strategic Insights Magazine (Navy PGS) Strategic Studies Institute (Army War College pubs) 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 History Book Catalog Military History Books (descriptions) Military Book Reviews Parameters Book Reviews Return to Top	Map & Geography Resources World Factbook (CIA) • Country Background Studies Vox Maps • 40 Maps That Explain Europe • 70 Maps That Explain America • 40 Maps That Explain The Middle East • More • 40 Maps That Explain WW I • 42 Maps That Explain WW II • 38 Maps That Explain Global Economics 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 Animated American History Maps University of Texas Map Collection • Historical Maps • Military History • By Country • Battlefields & Historic Sites (NPS) • Alt Mapping World History Map of the Week Maps.com HRW World Atlas Online West Point Atlas • Reliable Alternative • Supplemental Material Army Combat Studies Institute Maps 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 Maps & Images (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 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 Professionals ... • 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 History Timelines (World History Project) Timelines of Wars • Middle Eastern Wars • European Wars 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 Timelines of American Wars (detailed) • Another US Military Timeline (interactive) 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) Military History Timeline (Rickard) Chronology of Military Events WarData.net US Military Timeline (interactive) Presidential Timeline (Hoover to Bush 43) 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 • More • More • War Quotations • Artillery Quotations • USMC Quotations & Lore Quotations on War • More • More • More • More • More • More • More • Bellum site • More (by author) • More • More • More • More • Antiwar.com 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 Leadership 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 Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia • On Unavoidable Wars • On War & Peace • More James Madison Quotations Lincoln on the real threat to America Maxims of Napoleon Military Maxims of Napoleon • Alt Napoleon: Quotations • Military Quotes • Napoleon Guide • Wikiquote 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 • More • More • "Man in the Arena" & full speech • Alt • Context Quotations From WW II Winston Churchill (Wikiquote) • More • More • More • More • The Churchill Centre • Quotes • Churchill's Major Speeches (lifetime) • Churchill Myths • Churchill Resources (LOC) • Wartime Speeches (excerpts) • 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 (Military Conflict Institute) The Long-Range Analysis of War An Overview of Military Conflict The Second World Wars: WW II in Perspective Intro to Causes of War: WW I to Iraq (e-book) • Conditions Influencing Liklihood of War (JSTOR) Military Strategy & the Outbreak of War 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 US Declarations of War & Authorized Use of Force • More (LOC analysis) Just War Theory Logistics and the 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 Power Instruments of National Power (US DoD) Elements of National Power (bibliography, NDU) • Bibliography (Army War College) Orchestrating the Instruments of Power • Instruments of National Power IOP in the Long War (case study) Diplomacy Milestones in US Diplomatic History (DoS) • Timeline Foreign Relations of the United States (series) International Relations • More (Wikipedia) Encyclopedia of Am Foreign Policy • Alt • US Naval Diplomacy Documents Related to Am Foreign Policy 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 US Int'l Information Policy (NDSD 130, 6 Mar 1984) Information As An Element of Power (ICAF paper) 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) • Graphic 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 10: Armed Forces • Alt US Code Title 50: War & National Defense • Alt 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 Presidential Character & Legacy (all 44; podcast) Ranking the Presidents • More (Schlesinger, 1997) Intelligence and the American Presidency Presidential Timeline (Hoover to Bush 43) **** 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 • Introduction • War in American Editorial Cartoons Punch Political Cartoons (history) CIA Briefings of Presidential Candidates War Powers: Constitutional Roots (internal link) Presidential Uses of Military Force, 1812-2016 Use of US Armed Forces Abroad (1798-2010, CRS) Departmental Reorganization Act of 1918 War Powers Act of 1941 War Powers Resolution (1973) War Powers Resolution After Thrity Years What Happened to Declarations of War? Principles of War Principles of War (Mil History Companion) Principles of War (CADRE c 2006, pdf) Air Univeristy Resources 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 Logistics and the Western Way of War Examples of Total War (149 BC - 1945 AD) Anticipating Total War: German & US Experience • Review (JSTOR) US Origins of Total War 1860-1880 (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 & Birth of Total War (BBC) Patterns of War Since the 18th Century Power, Technology & Total War (French views) The Conduct of War, 1789-1961 (Fuller) • Review (JSTOR) • More • More • More • More The Age of Total War, 1860-1945 (e-book) 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 Hiroshima and the Evolution of Total War "No Substitute For Victory" (MacArthur, 19Apr51) • Alt There IS No Substitute For Victory Why Has America Stopped Winning Wars? (2015) War: SometimesThere Is a Substitute for Victory • Did Stalemate Equal Victory? (Korea & Vietnam) Low Intensity Conflict USMC Small Wars Manual (1940) • pdf • Background "Small Wars Manual:" Analysis & Relevance • pdf Small Wars: Principles & Practice (Caldwell, 1906) • pdf • Background Why the Strong Lose (Parameters, 2005) Small Wars Journal • Archive Irregular War Insurgency • Counterinsurgency Counterinsurgency Portal (Air War College) 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) The Four Lessons of History Quotations: Lessons of History • Alt • More Lessons of History (Harold James) Lessons of History (Wm Urban) The Lessons of History (Michael Howard, 1982) Why Don't We Learn From History? (Liddell Hart) • The Significance of Military History How Do We Learn From History? (AHA) History as a Way of Learning 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) Edmund Burke on the Lessons of History Reflections on the Lessons of History Four Lessons of History (Charles A. Beard) • Alt Cultural Approach to the History of War Lessons Learned From War The Warnings of History (NY Times, 2016) History & the History of War (John Shy) • pdf Civil War: Decline of Decisive Battle • pdf Why the North Won the Civil War • More British Lessons From American Civil War Lessons froe Philippine War • More Lessons of Russo-Japanese War Lessons From WW II Lessons of the Forgotten War (Korea) North Korea & The Lessons of History Lessons From History: Vietnam & Iraq Iraq War: Will We Learn From History? Lessons Learned: Urban Combat (FM 3-06.11) Iraq, Grand Strategy & Lessons of Mil History Jt. Military Operations Historical Collection (Korea; Desert Shield & Desert Storm) Nothing Less Than Victory (Lewis, e-book) Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions (e-book) American's Changing Self-Perceptions McNamara's 11 Lessons from Vietnam • Fog of War (video) Never Fight A Land War In Asia (Stratfor) • Alt • Source? • MacArthur quotations • More • Viscount Bernard Montgomery • SecDef Robert Gates (Feb 2011) Center for Army Lessons Learned (pubs) • Report Index Return to Top	American Way of War History of American Wars **** 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 History of the National Guard American Way of War (Oxford Com to Mil Hist) Foundations of the American Army (CMH) • 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 & Hamilton on Standing Armies Jefferson on a Standing Military Jefferson & US Maritime Defense Policy Jefferson on the Need For a Navy Jefferson's Gunboat Navy Establishment of US Military Academy (1802) Constitutional Roots Constitution of the United States of America • Discussion (Wikipedia) Lincoln on the real threat to America • Full Constitution Basis: Military & War Powers • War Powers Clause • "The Law of Nations" Clause • Background War Powers Act of 1941 War Powers Resolution of 1973 • Compliance War Powers and the Supreme Court US Code Title 10: Armed Forces • Alt • 10 USC: Organization & General Military Powers US Code Title 50: War & National Defense The Federalist Papers (complete texts) 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) 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 • "It Takes A Militia" (review, Gart Hart book, 1999) • More Reviews Madison: Raising An Army, 1812 (lesson plan) Second Amendment Issues Origin & Meaning of Right to Bear Arms 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 America's First Battles (chronology) • More The American Citizen-Soldier, 1775-1861 Citizen-Soldiers or Regulars: Views on Military Establishment 1775-1781 Reorganizing the Army (post-Span-Am War) American Isolationism & Expansionism (JSTOR) US Non-Intervention American Way of War Today American Way of War (Air University bibliography) Eagle' Talons: American Experience at War (e-book) War & the Military in America (SHSU) Grand Strategy & American Foreign Policy New American Way of War (Jeff Record, 2002) New American Way of War (Max Boot, 2003) • Alt American Way of War and Peace in Comparative Perspective (Wilson & Lyall) • pdf 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) 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) Why America Fails to Win Every War It Starts (2017) 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) Trends in American Major War & Peace (1983) 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 Everything You Thought You Knew About the American Way of War is Wrong (2002) Austerity and the End of American Intervention Why Has America Stopped Winning Wars? 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