Whirlwind: The Official U.S. Army History of the Gulf War

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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT -- OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price Edgar F. Raines Jr.’s The Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics in Grenada, 1983, the second volume in the U.S. Army Center of Military History’s Contingency Operations Series, provides an account of how Army logistics affected ground operations during the Grenada intervention and, in turn, how combat influenced logistical performance. Noteworthy is the book’s emphasis on the role of individuals and of the decisions they made based on the necessarily incomplete and sometimes misleading information available at the time. The narrative ranges through all levels of war—from the meetings of the National Security Council, where the president grappled with the question of whether to intervene in the wake of a bloody coup, to the jungles of Grenada, where a sergeant in combat coped successfully with a Cuban ambush despite a lack of hand grenades. Raines is careful to place Army logistical planning and operations in a joint context as well as grounding them in the Army’s post-Vietnam reform of logistical organization and doctrine. In addition to furnishing a fascinating account of a complex operation, The Rucksack War identifies many issues that may well influence the conduct of U.S. forces in future short-notice contingency operations. Military historians and political scientists, active duty and reserve soldiers, military leaders, as well as military science students may be interested in this volume. Related products: Spearhead of Logistics: A History of the United States Army Transportation Corps can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00597-2 United States Army in World War 2, War Department, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1940-1943 can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-029-00056-3 Other products produced by the U.S. Army Center of Military History can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1061

Rucksack War: U.S. Army Operational Logistics In Grenada, October-November 1983

Edgar F. Raines Jr.

Specialties

U.S. Army Center of Military History

Germans invading the Anus of Europe.

Invasion Balkans!: The German Campaign in the Balkans, Spring 1941

Blau, George E.

United States Department of the Army Office of Military History

Burd Street Pr

Hundreds of photographs illustrate the battles in the ETO covering the buildup in the UK, the air offensive, the invasion, and the campaign in Central Europe.

The War Against Germany: Europe and Adjacent Areas

Europe

POTOMAC BOOKS

Book by Hunter, Kenneth E., Center of Military History, Tackley, Margaret E.

The War Against Japan (United States Army in World War II)

Hunter, Kenneth E.

Tackley, Margaret E.

Potomac Books Inc.

Following the Allies through their fierce battles for North Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Southern France, this volume - along with The War Against Japan and The War Against Germany - constitutes the US Army's official pictorial record of World War II.

War in the Mediterranean (H) (United States Army in World War II)

Brasseys

CMH Publication 59-2-1. Global War on Terrorism Series. From the foreword: "By late 2006, 31/2 years after the dramatic capture of Baghdad by U.S. and coalition forces, the war in Iraq was going badly. Sectarian tensions had erupted into violence and American public support for the war was at an all-time low. For better or worse, the George W. Bush administration decided to gamble on a troop increase, sending thirty thousand additional U.S. troops to Iraq in order to stop the bloodshed and bring stability to Baghdad and the surrounding area. By June 2007, they were all in place, and the so-called surge began. "Surging South of Baghdad" covers this crucial period in the Iraq war from the perspective of a single division operating in the region south of the Iraqi capital. Before the surge, this slice of territory between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers had become an insurgent safe haven where the enemy cached weapons and built bombs that fueled sectarian violence in Baghdad. Placing the 3d Infantry Division there bolstered a flagging coalition presence in the area and began the process of stabilization and rebuilding. This account offers a snapshot of the surge, its successes and shortcomings, and shows how the Army coped with the changing demands of the modern combat environment."

Surging South of Baghdad: The 3d Infantry Division and Task Force MARNE in Iraq, 2007-2008

Andrade, Dale

Middle East

Military Bookshop

CMH Pub 70-99-1. Chronicles the establishment and achievements of U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service, the organization that trained and employed uniformed Japanese American linguists. Tells the story of second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and translators in World War 2. Describes how the War Department recruited soldiers from an ethnic minority and trained them in a secret school to use the Japanese language. 532 pages. ill.

Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II

McNaughton, James C.

United States Army Center of Military History publication, CMH Pub 70-113-1. United States Army in Iraq and Afghanistan Series. Edited by Jon T. Hoffman. Provides a soldier's-eye view of the Iraq war.

Tip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007

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