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Military History November 2007 Dennis Showalter	The Day of Doom: The Battle of Gravelotte/Saint-Privat On a single day in 1870, Europe's two greatest armies nearly annihilated each other in an epic slaughter that would not be matched until the stalemates of World War I.
Military History April 2007 David A. Bell	Napoleon's Total War Napoleon's suppression of Spain's 'guerrilla war' of independence 1808-1814 was something new under the sun: a war against everyone.
World War II November 2003 Ronald E. Powaski	World War II: Stopping Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's Panzers Much of the future course of World War II was determined by Adolf Hitler's decision in the spring of 1940 to stop Field Marshal Erich von Manstein's panzers at their moment of supreme victory.
Military History Quarterly Winter 2007 Edward L. Bimberg	Augustin-Leon Guillaume's Goums in a Modern War Tribal Moroccan mountain fighters groomed for modern war by a tough French general played key roles in driving the Nazis from North Africa and liberating Sicily, Corsica, and Rome.
World War II Jon Guttman	Closing the Falaise Pocket In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it.
Vietnam June 2006 James M. Haley	1861 French Conquest of Saigon: Battle of the Ky Hoa Forts In an 1861 battle with the French, the Vietnamese showed some of the fighting tenacity they would later display in places like Dien Bien Phu and Hue during the 20th century.
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America's Civil War Bruce A. Trinque	Hancock's 'Well-Conducted Fizzle' With Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia stubbornly clinging to Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant decided to cut its vital rail lines. To perform the surgery, he selected one of the North's proven heroes -- 'Hancock the Superb.'
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World War II August 2006 Jonathan W. Jordan	Operation Bagration: Soviet Offensive of 1944 Operation Bagration, the Soviet offensive of 1944, made the Normandy landings look like a mere scuffle -- in size, scope, and results!
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Military History Quarterly August 4, 2004 John S.D. Eisenhower	Birth of the American Expeditionary Force Retired French Marshal 'Papa' Joffre helped shape the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in World War I.
America's Civil War Gary W. Dolzall	Enemies Front and Rear Union forces under George H. Thomas destroyed the Confederate Army of Tennessee at Nashville as Thomas endured his own battle of resolve with Ulysses S. Grant.
Civil War Times September 2006 Ted Alexander	Battle of Antietam: Two Great American Armies Engage in Combat The opposing armies at Antietam were two very different forces commanded by two very different men.
Military History Jan/Feb 2008 Richard A. Gabriel	What We Learned... from the Hydaspes River Alexander the Great had come 2,500 miles since crossing the Hellespont in 334 BC and conquering the Persian Empire to the Indian frontier.
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Civil War Times Thomas T. Taylor	Eyewitness to the Battle of Atlanta Among the blue-clad soldiers moving against Atlanta in late July 1864 was Major Thomas T. Taylor of Georgetown, Ohio. In these passages from the letter he wrote to his wife, Netta, he described what he saw, experienced, and did during the Battle of Atlanta.
World War II Williamson Murray	Triumph of Operation Torch The Allied invasion of North Africa was a necessary first step on the road to victory in Europe.
Parameters Summer 2006 Lou DiMarco	Losing the Moral Compass: Torture and Guerre Revolutionnaire in the Algerian War Torture also has been the subject of much domestic political debate in the US. The French experience in Algeria from 1954 to 1962 is one of the clearest examples of how ill-conceived interrogation techniques contributed directly to the strategic failure of a counterinsurgency and the success of an insurgency.
Parameters Autumn 2006 Jeffrey Record	External Assistance: Enabler of Insurgent Success For either the insurgent side or the counterinsurgent side, material strength unguided by sound strategy and unsupported by sufficient willingness to fight and die is a recipe for almost certain defeat. But most insurgencies seek foreign help for good reason.
Parameters Spring 2004	Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad.
Military History June 15, 2004 Peter G. Tsouras	Alexander the Great's Most Heroic Moment Acceding to his weary soldiers' wishes, Alexander the Great turned homeward from India -- but even the trip back would require battle and conquest.
Parameters November 2004	Book Reviews Surprise, Security and the American Experience... Arguing About War... The Regulars: The American Army 1898-1941... etc.
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Parameters Summer 2006 Robert M. Cassidy	The Long Small War: Indigenous Forces for Counterinsurgency A task force that organizes and integrates special, conventional, and indigenous forces against terrorists, leveraging the best counterinsurgency practices, would be able to carry out the full range of counterinsurgency requirements within an autonomous area of operations.
Parameters Autum 2008	Book Reviews Looking for Trouble by Ralph Peters tales of his odyssey through a decaying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... Elizabeth Samet writes about teaching English at a military institution in her latest book Soldier's Heart... etc.
Parameters Autumn 2004 Michael O'Hanlon	The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established.
National Defense October 2004 Harold Kennedy	Army Undergoing Biggest Makeover Since World War II The U.S. Army has embarked upon what is described as its most important and controversial reorganization in decades in an effort to improve its ability to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while defending the home front.
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 John Rossant	The Real War Is France vs. France Resentment of the U.S. is being challenged by a growing cadre of French thinkers.
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 John Rossant	An Alliance In Ruins Brief reviews of two books, "Dangerous De-Liaisons" and "The French Betrayal of America," and a more indepth look at relations between France and the U.S.
Parameters Summer 2004 Gordon & Sollinger	The Army's Dilemma The Army is perceived by many as unimaginative, obstructionist, and wedded to concepts of warfare that are increasingly irrelevant to the current geopolitical environment. This article suggests an explanation for this perception and ways the Army might alter it.
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel	Army Shifts Focus to Dismounted Soldiers Army leaders say soldiers are the service's greatest weapon, and they are asking industry to shift their focus from platform to person and consider the infantryman first as it plans investments in new technology.
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BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Hardy Green	Little Big Man Oxford historian Alistair Horne has added a short, highly entertaining volume to the pile books on Napoleon Bonaparte. "The Age of Napoleon" is a tonic for those wanting to rejuvenate their History 101 gray matter.
Salon.com October 4, 2000 Darryl Mason	The greatest movie Stanley Kubrick never made For 30 years before his death, the idiosyncratic director dreamed of making a sex-drenched epic of war and peace.
Parameters Summer 2004 Mahnken & Fitzsimonds	Tread-Heads or Technophiles? Army Officer Attitudes Toward Transformation This article presents selected results of the first systematic effort to understand officer attitudes toward transformation in recent years.
PC Magazine August 17, 2005 Peter Suciu	Imperial Glory The French emperor Napoleon used his military and diplomatic skills to subdue half of Europe. In this game, you can try to do better while controlling one of the five major powers of the era.
National Defense May 2006 Perry & Flournoy	The U.S. Military: Under Strain And at Risk In the current debate over the nation's defense strategy and spending priorities, many have forgotten that the ground forces are under enormous strain. This strain, if not soon relieved, will have highly corrosive effects on the force.
Parameters Summer 2004 Brownlee & Schoomaker	Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities The United States is driving a rapid evolution in the methods and techniques of war.
Parameters Summer 2006 Audrey Kurth Cronin	Cyber-Mobilization: The New Levee en Masse The U.S. needs a counter-mobilization. So-called information warfare and public diplomacy do not capture the extent of this shift. Putting today's developments within their historical context, the U.S. should get beyond its cultural myopia and turn more attention to analyzing and influencing the means and ends of popular mobilization.
Smithsonian March 2007 David J. Marcou	Operatic Entrance As Paris feted Queen Elizabeth II, photographer Bert Hardy found a circumstance to match her pomp.
Parameters Autumn 2004	Commentary & Reply On "Serving a Nation at War"... Praising (mostly) "In Praise of Attrition"...
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Washington Pulse Army Nearing Breaking Point... Third Rotation Into Iraq Begins in September... War Stress Mounting in the Marine Corps... `Security of Supply' Treaties Exclude Vaccines, Fuel...
This Old House Jefferson Kolle	High Style with a French Twist We have Napoleon III to thank for the architectural style known as American Second Empire.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Wilson, Gordon & Johnson	An Alternative Future Force: Building a Better Army The Army's transformation concept rests on a set of major assumptions that should be questioned. This article suggests an alternative pathway for preparing US ground forces to meet the challenges of the next several decades.
National Defense November 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Generals Get Real About Missions, Budget Life in the "post-war" Army indeed will be different. It will not be one of dreary rotational deployments but one of multitasking and responding to unforeseen events.
National Defense April 2005	Washington Pulse The cost of equipping soldiers has escalated dramatically since the beginning of the war in Iraq... Pentagon unhappy about leaked memo... Turf feud between the Air Force and the Army on how best to destroy targets on the ground continues... etc.