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The Other Face of Battle: America's Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat
by Wayne E. Lee, David L. Preston, Anthony E. Carlson, David Silbey; 272 pages; Oxford University Press, 2021. Available on
amazon.com (hardcover - $28; Kindle - $9; audio CD - $27) and barnesandnoble.com (hardcover - $30; Nook - $15; audiobook -
$23).
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 lacked triumphant clarity, they are the focus of the
book. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson focus on, respectively, the Battle of Monongahela (1755), the
Battle of Manila (1898), and the Battle of Makuan, Afghanistan (2020) - conflicts in which American soldiers were forced
to engage in " irregular " warfare, confronting an enemy entirely alien to them. This enemy rejected the Western conventions
of warfare and defined success and failure - victory and defeat - in entirely different ways. Symmetry of any kind is lost.
Here was not ennobling engagement but atrocity, unanticipated insurgencies, and strategic stalemate.
Anthony E. Carlson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. Having previously served as an historian and analyst at the U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute,
Carlson has interviewed hundreds of soldiers who fought in Afghanistan.
Seven Myths of Military History
Edited by John D. Hosler; 208 pages, Hackett Publishing Company, 2022. Available on amazon.com (hardcover - $46; paperback -
$19; Kindle - $10) and barnesandnoble.com (Nook - $15).
Seven Myths of Military History offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated
on unsuspecting students, readers, moviegoers, game players, and politicians. It promotes awareness of how myths are
created by 'the spurious misuse and ignorance of history' and how misleading ideas about a military problem, as in
asymmetric warfare, can lead to misguided solutions.
John D. Hosler, Ph.D., is a professor of military history in the Department of Military History, at the U.S. Army Command
and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Arming the Irish Revolution: Gunrunning and Arms Smuggling
by W.H. Kautt; 328 pages; University Press of Kansas, 2021. Available on amazon.com (hardcover - $50; Kindle - $47) and
barnesandnoble.com (hardcover- $50; Nook - $38).
Arming the Irish Revolution is the first work of research and analysis to explore in detail the Irish work inside Britain to
establish arms centers and to conduct arms operations and trafficking. It also examines the full extent of the overseas or
foreign arms trade and the arms operations of the War of Independence which reveals how the rebel leaders ran complex,
maturing, and capable smuggling and manufacturing enterprises worldwide under the noses of the police, customs,
intelligence, and the military for years without getting caught.
W. H. Kautt, Ph.D., is a professor of military history, in the Department of Military History, at the U.S. Army Command and
General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Forging the Anvil: Combat Units in the U.S., British, and German Infantries of World War I
by G. Stephen Lauer; 463 pages; Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2022. Available on amazon.com (hardcover - $85).
It has long been accepted wisdom that Germany's infantrymen possessed superior tactical ability relative to their AngloAmerican
adversaries in World War II. Now, drawing on newly available information, Stephen Lauer unpacks that
assumption, exploring the conscription, classification, and training methods of the U.S., British, and German infantries
from 1919 through 1945. How did conscripted citizens become foot soldiers willing to fight, and even die, for each other in
the face of brutal physical and mental demands? How was it decided which men to assign to combat units? How did each
nation engender the social bonds that were essential if soldiers were to succeed - and survive - in their small unit milieus?
Addressing these questions of manpower quality, Forging the Anvil is a landmark study of the key factors that influenced
the creation of World War II infantries and sustained them in the crucible of close combat.
The late G. Stephen Lauer, Ph.D., was an associate professor of history and theory in the School of Advanced Military
Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and a retired lieutenant colonel in
the U.S. Marine Corps.
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