PART I: Tradition and an Envisioned Future Collide
1 War and Culture: An Analytical Approach
2 The American Practice of War: Cultural Tenets
3 The Legacy of World War II: Man versus Machine
4 Truman, the Cold War, and the National Military Establishment, 1945-1950
5 The Korean War: The Opening Phases, 1950-1951
6 The Korean War: The Final Phases, 1951-1953
PART II: The Eff orts to Adapt to a Nuclear World
7 Eisenhower, the Cold War, and Massive Retaliation, 1953-1960
8 Kennedy, McNamara, and Artificial Limited War, 1961-1963
9 The Vietnam War: The Opening Phases, 1955-1967
10 The Vietnam War: The Final Phases, 1967-1975
PART III: The New American Practice of War: War Without the People
11 The Recovery and Reorganization of the Armed Forces of the United States, 1975-1990
12 The Persian Gulf War: Operation Desert Shield, 1990-1991
13 The Persian Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm, 1991
14 Bush's Global War on Terrorism and Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2011
15 The Second Persian Gulf War: Operation Iraqi Freedom I, the Conventional War, 2003
16 The Second Persian Gulf War: Operation Iraqi Freedom II, the Nation-Building and Counterinsurgency War, 2003-2010
17 Epilogue: Citizenship and War