America's Armed Forces

SAM C. SARKESIAN is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Loyola University, Chicago. He serves as Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of the National Strategy Forum. Sarkesian has served as chairman of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (IUS), chairman of the Department of Political Science, Loyola University, Chicago, and chairman of the Research Committee on Armed Forces and Society of the International Political Science Association. He has published a number of books and articles on national security, unconventional conflicts, and military professionalism. Some of his most recent books include: U.S. National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, 2nd ed. (1995), Unconventional Conflicts in a New Security Era: Lessons from Malay and Vietnam (1993), and Soldiers, Society, and National Security (with John Allen Williams and Fred B. Bryant) (1995).ROBERT E. CONNOR, JR., recently retired from the Army with over 20 years service as an infantry officer. He served in Germany as a unit commander and weapons project officer. He also was Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics at Boston University where he taught courses on American military history and the American defense establishment. Most recently Connor was an instructor at the Combat Studies Institute, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he taught courses on modern warfare and military theory. He has published articles on military history for the Command and General Staff College Press and has contributed articles for publication in Historical Dictionary of the United States Army (forthcoming).

• Figures and Tables Preface Introduction by Sam C. Sarkesian The Armed Forces The Army by Dan Kaufman The Navy by John Allen Williams The Air Force by James Mowbray The Marine Corps by Allen R. Millett Total Forces: Reserves and National Guard by Charles Heller Summary by Robert E. Connor, Jr. Wars, Military Conflicts, and Noncombat Contingencies The American Way of War by Stephen J. Cimbala The Gulf War and Regional Conflicts by Douglas V. Johnson II Peacetime Engagements by David Tucker and Christopher J. Lamb Drug Wars and Revolutionary Groups by Cynthia Watson Noncombat Contingencies by James B. Motley Unconventional Conflicts by Thomas Mockaitis Conclusion: The Twenty-First Century Military by Sam C. Sarkesian and Robert E. Connor, Jr. Glossary Index