Mariner Books, 2024. — 608 p. A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history. On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing to invade Normandy, exhorting them to embrace the “Great Crusade” they...
Routledge, 2007. — 241 p. This is the first academic analysis of the role of embedded media in the 2003 Iraq War, providing a concise history of US military public affairs management since Vietnam. In late summer 2002, the Pentagon considered giving the press an inside view of the upcoming invasion of Iraq. The decision was surprising, and the innovative "embedded media...
Wiley, 2006. — 575 p. Political History of America's Wars is the first reference work to explore the legislative, social, and policy aspects of America's major wars, rebellions, and insurrections. This new volume weaves together important primary source documents, informative biographies, and in-depth essays to provide coverage of the political antecedents, events, and...
Facts on File, 2010. — 2114 p. Beginning with the earliest settlements of the Americas more than 12,000 years ago and leading up to recent events in the 21st century, the new four-volume "Chronology of American History" covers the entire length of American history.
W. W. Norton and Company, 1980. — 292 p. This is the first comprehensive look at the plan (Single Integrated Operating Plan, or S.I.O.P.) the United States has had since 1960 to wage nuclear war on Russia. How was it put together? Who decides what targets to hit and why? When and where would it be put into action? Using recently declassified documents and interviews with...
Routledge, 2012. — 545 p. The Small Wars of the United States, 1899 – 2009 is the complete bibliography of works on US military intervention and irregular warfare around the world, as well as efforts to quell insurgencies on behalf of American allies. The text covers conflicts from 1898 to the present, with detailed annotations of selected sources. In this second edition,...
Texas University Press, 2010. — 200 p. In the decades since the “forgotten war” in Korea, conventional wisdom has held that the Eighth Army consisted largely of poorly trained, undisciplined troops who fled in terror from the onslaught of the Communist forces. Now, military historian Thomas E. Hanson argues that the generalizations historians and fellow soldiers have used...
Verso, 2010. — 212 p. Known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan has now been singled out as Obama’s “just war,” the destination for an additional thirty thousand US troops to shore up an increasingly desperate occupation. Nick Turse brings together a range of leading commentators, politicians, and military strategists to analyze America’s real motives and likely prospects....
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 290 p. In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality was, in fact, integral to the military...
Vintage, 2007. — 532 p. Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq. A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency that followed. As Gordon...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 272 p. — ISBN-13 9780190920647. — ISBN-10 0190920645. Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they...
University of Alabama Press, 2005. — 255 p. Oral history by Marines who fought to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's invading forces. America's Battalion tells the experiences of one unit, the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, during Operation Desert Storm — the first Gulf War. Building from interviews with the members of the battalion, Otto Lehrack examines the nature of warfare...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 455 p. Since 1945, as the U.S. has engaged in near-constant “wars of choice” with limited congressional oversight, the executive and armed services have shared primary responsibility for often ill-defined objectives, strategies, and benefits. Matthew Moten shows the significance of negotiations between presidents and the generals allied with them.
Routledge, 2015. — 284 p. This book makes a significant contribution to American military history and an important contribution to American social and political history. It provides the complete story of black men and women who served as commissioned officers from 1861 to 1948 in the United States armed forces. The Native Guards. House Resolution 675. Limited Success, 1864 –...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. — 240 p. Engineering Expansion examines the U.S. Army's role in U.S. economic development from the nation's founding to the eve of the Civil War. William D. Adler starts with a simple question: if the federal government was weak in its early years, how could the economy and the nation have grown so rapidly? Adler answers this question by...
McFarland and Company, 2020. — 264 p. Designed as a reference work for those interested in the combat history of the U.S. Marine Corps, this book describes the engagements from the formation of the Continental Marines to the Corps' great exercise at the Battle of Okinawa. Organized chronologically, the individual skirmishes illustrate how each of the Marine Corps engagements...
McFarland and Company, 2010. — 216 p. On June 28, 1950, five U.S. airmen died when their aircraft were shot down over Korea. They became the first U.S. casualties in a war that started three days earlier when the North Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the Republic of South Korea. The losses of U.S. military personnel that began with those five airmen...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 400 p. In this book, a retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian takes a fresh look at Dwight D. Eisenhower’s lasting military legacy, in light of his evolving approach to the concept of unified command. Examining Eisenhower’s career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act, David Jablonsky explores...
Stanford University Press, 2016. — 216 p. As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments. Yet, since 1945, the U.S. Army has rewritten its capstone doctrine manual, Operations, fourteen times. While some modifications have been incremental, collectively they...
University of Tennessee Press, 2015. — 447 p. The remarkable military career of General Winfield Scott spanned fifty-three years, fourteen presidents, and six wars, both foreign and domestic. However, his lengthy service did not secure his rightful place among the nation's pantheon of great military leaders. Instead, he is most often remembered as the aged, overweight, and...
Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991. — 225 p. Traces the history of the U.S. Marine Corps from the American Revolution to the present and reveals how the force has adapted to changing times. Millett crafts the history of the Marines beautifully. From the early 18th century beginnings up to the first Desert War. The story of the history of the Marines is one of America. The...
Greenwood, 2019. — 1184 p. What was life really like for U.S. soldiers during America's wars? Were they conscripted or did they volunteer? What did they eat, wear, believe, think, and do for fun? Most importantly, how did they deal with the rigors of combat and coming home? This comprehensive book will answer all of those questions and much more, with separate chapters on the...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 232 p. Examines the U.S. Marines' visual culture of combat in the Iraq War. American military power in the War on Terror has increasingly depended on the capacity to see the enemy. The act of seeing — enhanced by electronic and digital technologies — has separated the shooter from the target, eliminating the risk of bodily harm to the...
Cornell University Press, 2015. — 280 p. As the U.S. experience in Iraq following the 2003 invasion made abundantly clear, failure to properly plan for risks associated with postconflict stabilization and reconstruction can have a devastating impact on the overall success of a military mission. In Waging War, Planning Peace, Aaron Rapport investigates how U.S. presidents and...
Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901. — 800 p. The Continental Congress, June 15, 1775, unanimously elected George Washington, Esq., "to command all the continental forces, raised or to be raised, for the defense of American liberty," and resolved, July 21, "that such a body of troops be kept up in the Massachusetts Bay as General Washington shall think necessary, provided they...
Bristol University Press, 2021. — 320 p. America has been at war for most of the 20th and 21st centuries and during that time has progressively moved towards a vicarious form of warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the military’s exposure to danger is limited, and special forces and covert instruments are on the increase. Important strategic decisions are taken...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 400 p. Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million men and women to fight in...
Center of Military History US Army, 2008. — 582 p. Enduring Voices: Oral Histories of the U.S. Army Experience in Afghanistan, 2003-2005, edited by Christopher N. Koontz, is an anthology of sixteen oral histories that chronicle the establishment of Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan. It includes a lengthy interview with Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, the first commander of the new...
Center of Military History USA, 2009. — 215 p. This book really shows you everything small/medium sized units had to go through in the Iraq War. You can see the planning that had to go in these missions and the responsibility that these young soldiers had to bear. The book might seem like someone is speaking to you without stopping but if you read a chapter in two days you will...
ABC-Clio, 2010. — 385 p. The United States Army: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present captures the full sweep of the U.S. Army's place in our nation's history. Its series of concise, yet highly informative, entries cover all important events involving American ground troops — both successes and failures, in wartime and in peace — from the American Revolutionary War to the...
Greenwood Press, 2000. — 682 p. Having evolved over the past two and a quarter centuries to become the premier military force in the world, the U.S. Army has a heritage rich in history and tradition. This historical A-Z Dictionary provides short, clear, authoritative entries on a broad cross section of military terms, concepts, arms and equipment, units and organizations,...
Washington: U.S. Army War College, 2019. — 713 p. The Iraq War has been the costliest U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War. To date, few official studies have been conducted to review what happened, why it happened, and what lessons should be drawn. The U.S. Army in the Iraq War is the Army’s initial operational level analysis of this conflict, written in narrative format, with...
Washington: U.S. Army War College, 2019. — 739 p. The Iraq War has been the costliest U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War. To date, few official studies have been conducted to review what happened, why it happened, and what lessons should be drawn. The U.S. Army in the Iraq War is the Army’s initial operational level analysis of this conflict, written in narrative format, with...
Collectve. — Imagine Pablishing, 2018. — 164 p. —(History of War). Created in the crucible of war, the United States has been known throughout history for its military. Uncover the nation’s greatest battles as it fights against communism, fascism and itself from the 1770s right up to the present day. Explore the key fights from the American Civil War, board a sub in the...
Combat Studies Institute Press Fort Leavenworth USA, 2010. — 586 p. The US Army Order of Battle, 1919–1941 is an important addition to the library of all Army historians, professional and amateur. More than a simple listing of units and the headquarters to which they were assigned, this book is an encyclopedia of information on Army tactical organizations in existence during...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2010. — 1108 p. Notes on Contributors Wars The Armed Forces Notes on Contributors Foreign Military Operations Short of Declared War Military Specialties The Military, American Society, and Culture
ABC-CLIO, 2016. — 1336 p. This three-volume reference work provides an up-to-date presentation and analysis of the U.S. wars of the 21st century, addressing their backgrounds, causes, courses, and consequences. It serves as an indispensable resource for students seeking to understand the role of the United States in the world today.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 424 p. "The American Military: A Narrative History" presents a comprehensive introduction to more than four centuries of American military history. - Presents a chronological account of American military history from clashes between militias and Native Americans to 21st-century operations in Afghanistan and Iraq - Features personal vignettes to put a...
New York: The Dial Press / James Wade, 1978. — 171 p. After Nazi's defeat in 1945, Soviet Union emerged as a new superpower with its own aggressive agenda to promote Communism and eventually, dominate in the world. American Joint Chiefs of Stuff had to contemplate probable Soviet's actions and by 1949 came up with a plane of effective military response. "Dropshot" is a result...
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. — 287 p. As far back as colonial times, Native individuals and communities have fought alongside European and American soldiers against common enemies. Medicine Bags and Dog Tags is the story of these Native men and women whose military service has defended ancient homelands, perpetuated longstanding warrior traditions, and promoted...
Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2011. - 372 p. The United States Marine Corps: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present touches upon all aspects of the Continental and U.S. Marine Corps since their inception. All major battles in all major wars are covered, along with innumerable smaller clashes and deployments abroad. The evolution of amphibious doctrine, so essential to...