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Contents

Chapter	Page
FRONT MATTER	v
1 Introduction	1
2 The Beginnings	18
3 The American Revolution: First Phase	41
4 The Winning of Independence, 1777-1783	70
5 The Formative Years, 1783-1812	101
6 The War of 1812	122
7 The Thirty Years’ Peace	148
8 The Mexican War and After	163
9 The Civil War, 1861	184
10 The Civil War, 1862	209
11 The Civil War, 1863	236
12 The Civil War, 1864-1865	262
13 Darkness and Light: The Interwar Years, 1865-1898	281
14 Winning the West: The Army in the Indian Wars, 1865-1890	300
15 Emergence to World Power, 1898- 1902	319
16 Transition and Change, 1902-1917	343
17 World War I: The First Three Years	358
18 World War I: The U.S. Army Overseas	381
19 Between World Wars	405
20 World War II: The Defensive Phase	423
21 Grand Strategy and the Washington High Command	446
22 World War II: The War Against Germany and Italy	473
23 World War II: The War Against Japan	499
24 Peace Becomes Cold War, 1945-1950	529
25 The Korean War, 1950-1953	545
26 The Army and the New Look	572
27 Global Pressures and the Flexible Response	591
28 The U.S. Army in Vietnam	619
SUGGESTED READINGS	695

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