The American Military: A Concise History narrates the American military experience.

Making War at Fort Hood is the first ethnography to examine the everyday lives of the soldiers, families, and communities who personally bear the burden of America's most recent wars.

A landmark work."--Lynn Eden, Stanford University, author of Whole World on Fire "Steve Biddle may be the best American defense analyst of his generation, and this book is quite possibly his career masterpiece to date.

In Dubious Battle: The War for Vietnam and the Erosion of American Mmilitary Power, 1961-1975. 18. The Common Defense and the End of the Cold War, 1976-1993. Appendixes: A. Participation and Losses, Major Wars, 1775-1991.

This volume, using certain key documents or selections from them, sketches the changing status of blacks in the military service first of the American colonies and then of the United States.