...James A. Huston Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING: SECURITY OR ILLUSION? JAMES A. HUSTON A LLEGATIONS that the military situation of the United States is far more critical than it would have been had a pro­ gram of universal military training been...

...Christopher T. Nelson In the aftermath of the Pacific War, the US military began an occupation of the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa that continues to this day. Although formal sovereignty of the islands was returned to Japan in 1972, the physical and social space of Okinawa remains dominated...

...David Vine The people of the Chagos Archipelago were forcibly removed from their homeland in the Indian Ocean’s Chagos Archipelago in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the US and British governments created a military base on the people’s largest island, Diego Garcia. Since their expulsion...

...Andrew Yeo This essay examines antibase movements in the Philippines, giving attention to the development, organization, and role of antibase movements leading to the ouster of US military forces in 1991. Additionally, I discuss how the return of the US military in the late 1990s under a visiting...

...Seungsook Moon Since World War II, US military bases have become a global phenomenon and generated complex responses from their “host” societies. For these past six decades, South Korea has functioned as one of the major hubs of the global network of US military bases, yet organized local movements...

... with their really-existing military establishments. More than the ideological differences between Nasserism and Kemalism, it was the very different tradition of military coups that shaped the public’s reaction to the armed forces. In Egypt, the Free Officers liberated the country from the British and built...

...William K. Boyd Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 Military Criticism by General William R. Boggs William K. Boyd Professor of History in Trinity College No military conflict has ever been the theme of so many me­ moirs by its participators as the American Civil War. The nar­...

...Theodore Ropp U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition (The Library of American Biography, edited by Oscar Handlin) . By Catton Bruce . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1954 . Pp. x , 201 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 574 The South...

...Theodore Ropp Hitler Directs His War: The Secret Records of His Daily Military Conferences . Selected and Annotated by Gilbert Felix . New York : Oxford University Press , 1950 . Pp. xxiii , 187 . $3.25 . Invasion 1944: Rommel and the Normandy Campaign . By Speidel Hans...

...Theodore Ropp West Point, A History of the United States Military Academy . By Forman Sidney . New York : Columbia University Press , 1950 . Pp. vii , 255 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews I3i well be written off as a nightmare or a bonanza...

...Theodore Ropp The Twenty-Five-Year War: America’s Military Role in Vietnam . By General Palmer Bruce R. Jr. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1984 . Pp. ix , 236 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 9i The Twenty-Five-Year War: America s...

...Alex Roland America Arms for a New Century: The Making of a Great Military Power . By Abrahamson James L. . New York : The Free Press , 1981 . Pp. xv , 253 . $17.95 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 122 The South Atlantic Quarterly writer would return...

...Theodore Ropp Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War . By Williams Kenneth P. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1949 . 2 vols. Pp. xviii , 902 . $12.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 401 the absence of strong discontent...

...Robert R. Wilson Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, London, 1945 . Washington : Government Printing Office , 1949 . Pp. xx , 441 . $1.75. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 530 The South...

...Harold T. Parker The Background of Napoleonic Warfare: The Theory of Military Tactics in Eighteenth-Century France . By Quimby Robert S. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1957 . Pp. viii , 385 . $6.75 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 307...

...T. Harry Williams The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European Inheritance . By Luvaas Jay . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1959 . Pp. xi , 253 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 BOOKS The Military Legacy of the Civil War: The European...

...Theodore Ropp Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War. Vol. III: Grant’s First Year in the West . By Williams Kenneth P. . New York : Macmillan , 1952 . Pp. xiv , 585 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 321 Lincoln Finds...

...B. U. Ratchford Book Reviews 257 American Military Government in Germany. By Harold Zink. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. Pp. 272. $4.00. This is probably the first appraisal by a competent authority on gov­ ernments of the work of our Military Government in Germany. Dr. Zink is a prominent...

...Theodore Ropp Military Policy and National Security . Edited by Kaufmann William W. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1956 . Pp. x , 274 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 118 The South Atlantic Quarterly discovering how men important...

... renomination in 1864. Robert h. woody A Military History of Modern China, 1924-1949. By F. F. Liu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Pp. xii, 312. $6.00. This is the second Princeton book on modern Chinese military history to appear within the last two years. Ralph L. Powell s The Rise of Chinese...