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Barr, Daniel P., “Victory at Kittanning? Reevaluating the Impact of Armstrong’s Raid on the Seven Years’ War in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131 (Jan. 2007), 5–32.

Bielakowski, Alexander M., “General Hawkins’s War: The Future of the Horse in the U.S. Cavalry,” Journal of Military History, 71 (Jan. 2007), 127–38.

Fukito, Masami, “Chosen sensoki Amerika gasshukoku no Taiwan seisaku” (To neutralize or not: U.S. policy toward Taiwan during the Korean War, 1950–1953), 20seikikenkyu (Tokyo), 6 (2005), 97–128. In Japanese.

Lindemann, Marc, “Storming the Ivory Tower: The Military’s Return to American Campuses,” Parameters, 36 (Winter 2006–2007), 44–57.

Malcomson, Robert, “‘Carry Michilimackinac at All Hazards’: How the Capture of Michilimackinac Affected American Campaign Plans in the War of 1812,” Inland Seas, 62 (Fall 2006), 197–206.

Meilinger, Phillip S., “A History of Effects-Based Air Operations,” Journal of Military History, 71 (Jan. 2007), 139–67.

Milne, David, “‘Our equivalent of guerrilla warfare’: Walt Rostow and the Bombing of North Vietnam, 1961–1968,” Journal of Military History, 71 (Jan. 2007), 169–203.

Pearcy, Matthew T., “‘The Ruthless Hand of War’: Andrew A. Humphreys in the Second Seminole War,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Fall 2006), 123–53.

Sahara, Ayako, “Samazama na betonamu senso” (Vietnam wars), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 5 (2005), 119–34. In Japanese.

Spearin, Christopher, “Special Operations Forces a Strategic Resource: Public and Private Divides,” Parameters, 36 (Winter 2006–2007), 58–70.

Wooster, Robert, “Fort Davis and the Close of a Military Frontier,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 110 (Oct. 2006), 173–91.

 

Boulton, Mark, “A Price on Freedom: The Problems and Promise of the Vietnam-Era G.I. Bills” (University of Tennessee, 2005). Order No. DA3205778.

Fussell, Judson M., “The Political Economy of the United States Military Market: 1963–2005” (George Mason University, 2006). Order No. DA3215143.

Gorman, G. Scott, “Seeking Clocks in the Clouds: Nonlinearity and American Precision Air Power” (Johns Hopkins University, 2006). Order No. DA3213849.

Janke, Linda Sharon, “Prisoners of War: Sexuality, Venereal Disease, and Women’s Incarceration during World War I” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3210253.

Vuic, Kara Dixon, “‘Officer. Nurse. Woman.’: Defining Gender in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3215177.

 

Birtle, Andrew J., U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, 1942–1976. (Washington: Center of Military History, 2006. xvi, 570 pp. Paper, $49.00, isbn 0-16-072959-9.)

Bonk, David, Château Thierry & Belleau Wood, 1918: America’s Baptism of Fire on the Marne. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 96 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-1-84603-034-5.) Heavily illustrated.

Bucholtz, Chris, 332nd Fighter Group: Tuskegee Airmen. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 128 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-84603-044-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Crew, Thomas E., Combat Loaded: Across the Pacific on the uss Tate. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxii, 232 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-58544-556-1.)

Foster, Randy E. M., Vietnam Firebases, 1965–73: American and Australian Forces. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 64 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-84603-103-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Husted, Stewart W., George C. Marshall: The Rubrics of Leadership. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2006. xviii, 264 pp. $23.95, isbn 978-0-9709682-3-4.)

Jones, Simon, World War I Gas Warfare Tactics and Equipment. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 64 pp. Paper, $17.95, isbn 978-1-84603-151-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Kaplan, Lawrence S., Ronald D. Landa, and Edward J. Drea, History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, vol. 5: The McNamara Ascendancy, 1961–1965. (Washington: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2006. xiv, 664 pp. $49.00, isbn 0-16-075369-4.)

Kimbrough, Natalie, Equality or Discrimination? African Americans in the U.S. Military during the Vietnam War. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2007. x, 186 pp. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-0-7618-3672-8.)

Quarstein, John V., A History of Ironclads: The Power of Iron over Wood. (Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2006. 284 pp. Paper, $24.99, isbn 978-1-59629-118-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Reid, Thomas, America’s Fortress: A History of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xii, 163 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-8130-3019-6.)

Rose, Lisle A., Power at Sea, vol. 1: The Age of Navalism, 1890–1918. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xxvi, 355 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1683-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1701-1.)

Rose, Lisle A., Power at Sea, vol. 2: The Breaking Storm, 1919–1945. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xviii, 514 pp. Cloth, $59.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1694-6. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1702-8.)

Rose, Lisle A., Power at Sea, vol. 3: A Violent Peace, 1946–2006. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xx, 371 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1695-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1703-5.)

Silbey, David J., A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xvi, 254 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-0-8090-7187-6.)

Still, William N., Jr., Crisis at Sea: The United States Navy in European Waters in World War I. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xx, 741 pp. $100.00, isbn 0-8130-2987-2.)

Tillman, Barrett, LeMay. (New York: Palgrave, 2007. x, 205 pp. $21.95, isbn 978-1-4039-7135-7.)

Wittenberg, Eric J., Rush’s Lancers: The Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War. (Yardley: Westholme, 2007. xii, 316 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59416-032-5.)

Zaloga, Steven J., U.S. Field Artillery of World War II. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 48 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-84603-061-1.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Fitzharris, Joseph C., ed., Patton’s Fighting Bridge Builders: Company B, 1303rd Engineer General Service Regiment. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xviii, 237 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-550-9.)

Lale, Max S., “My War: 1944–1945,” East Texas Historical Journal, 45 (no 1, 2007), 13–28.

McCarthy, Mike, Phantom Reflections: The Education of an American Fighter Pilot in Vietnam. (Westport: Praeger, 2007. xiv, 176 pp. $44.95, isbn 0-275-99327-2.)

McLaurin, Melton A., The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii, 202 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3097-0.)

Pearcy, Matthew T., ed., “Andrew Atkinson Humphreys’ Seminole War Field Journal,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 85 (Fall 2006), 197–230.

Trowbridge, John M., ed., “Kentuckians at the Battle of Tippecanoe,” Kentucky Ancestors, 41 (Spring 2006), 125–47.

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