American Military History

Center of Military History United States Army

Washington, DC 1989

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Chapter	Page
Front Matter	v
Introduction	1
The Beginnings	18
The American Revolution: First Phase	41
The Winning of Independence, 1777-1783	70
The Formative Years, 1783-1812	101
The War of 1812	122
The Thirty Years’ Peace	148
The Mexican War and After	163
The Civil War, 1861	184
The Civil War, 1862	209
The Civil War, 1863	236
The Civil War, 1864-1865	262
Darkness and Light: The Interwar Years, 1865-1898	281
Winning the West: The Army in the Indian Wars, 1865-1890	300
Emergence to World Power, 1898-1902	319
Transition and Change, 1902-1917	343
World War I: The First Three Years	358
World War I: The U.S. Army Overseas	381
Between World Wars	405
World War II: The Defensive Phase	423
Grand Strategy and the Washington High Command	446
World War II: The War Against Germany and Italy	473
World War II: The War Against Japan	499
Peace Becomes Cold War, 1945-1950	529
The Korean War, 1950-1953	545
The Army and the New Look	572
Global Pressures and the Flexible Response	591
The U.S. Army in Vietnam	619
Suggested Readings	695

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