Letter from the Chair

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Battle of Surigao Strait

The sprawling battle of Leyte Gulf was fought from 23 to 26 October 1944, and nearly seventy years later it still has the power both to fire the imagination and to provide enduring military lessons. As drama goes, the battle (or more pre- cisely, a series of engagements, each deserving a name of its own) is an ap- parently bottomless cornucopia of personalities, desperate gambles, and heroism, as well as of enough “what-ifs” to spawn a cottage industry of alternate histories. In at least one way, Leyte Gulf has similarities to Gettysburg. Both bat- tles have been written about so exten- sively that some authors focus on the smaller engagements that together com- plete the picture of the larger conflict

The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War

It is difficult to imagine historical ground that has been more thoroughly mined than that of the American Civil War. Biographies, battle studies, sweep- ing histories, and all manner of special- ized analyses dot the literary landscape. However, rather than turning away from a potentially saturated market, our collective interest in this sanguinary conflict has kept publishers and authors delivering a steady stream of material year after year after year

Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations inBleeding Kansas,

Tony Mullis, a serving officer in the U.S. Air Force, takes a close look at a Composite Default screen time when approximately 10 percent of the U.S. Army was intimately involved in one of the most challenging and po- litically charged assignments ever given to the U.S. military. Assigned occupa- tion duties in a land where tribal loyal- ties had been the primary form of government, Army officers, in coopera- tion with diplomats appointed by the president, were tasked to assist a fledg- ling democracy attain statehood while avoiding incipient civil war