The History of American Military. Richard W. Stewart
the Mississippi
Grant’s Campaign against Vicksburg
Sherman’s Great Wheel to the East
Thomas Protects the Nashville Base
13 Darkness and Light The Interwar Years 1865–1898
Demobilization, Reorganization, and the French Threat in Mexico
Isolation and Professional Development
14 Winning the West The Army in the Indian Wars 1865–1890
15 Emergence to World Power 1898–1902
Victory at Sea: Naval Operations in the Caribbean and the Pacific
The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902
16 Transition, Change, and the Road to War, 1902–1917
Reorganization of the Army Establishment of the General Staff
Reorganization of the Army The Regular Army and the Militia
Caribbean Problems and Projects
The Army on the Mexican Border
The National Defense Act of 1916
Epilogue The American Army 1775–1917
Preface
The story of the United States Army is always growing and changing. Historians constantly seek to reinterpret the past while accumulating new facts as America’s Army continues to be challenged on new foreign battlefields. Nor does the Army, as an institution, ever stand still. It necessarily changes its organization, materiel, doctrine, and composition to cope with an ever-changing world of current conflict and potential danger. Thus, the Center of Military History is committed to preparing new editions of American Military History as we seek to correct past mistakes, reinterpret new facts, and bring the Army’s story up to date. This new edition of that textbook, an important element in soldier and officer education since 1956, seeks to do just that.
This edition of American Military History builds on the previous edition, published in 2005, and expands its coverage to include an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009. This expanded section is necessarily only