Michel, Marshall L. III, The 11 Days of Christmas: America’s Last Vietnam Battle, Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2002.
Murray, Aaron R., editor, Vietnam War Battles and Leaders, DK, New York, 2004.
Nichols, John B., and Barrett Tillman, On Yankee Station: The Naval Air War over Vietnam, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2001.
Palmer, Bruce Jr., 25 Year War: America’s Military Role in Vietnam, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1984.
Palmer, Dave Richard, Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective, Presidio, Novato, 1982.
Rasimus, Ed, When Thunder Rolled: An F-105 Pilot over Vietnam, Smithsonian, Washington, 2003.
Summers, Harry G. Jr., The Vietnam War Almanac, Ballantine, New York, 1985.
Thompson, Wayne, To Hanoi and Back: The United States Air Force and North Vietnam, 1966–1973, Smithsonian, Washington, 2000.
Tucker, Spencer C., editor, The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social and Military History, Oxford, 1998.
Van De Mar, Brian, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991.
Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People’s Army of Vietnam, The Military Institute of Vietnam, translated by Merle L. Pribbenow, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1994.
Willbanks, James H., The Tet Offensive: A Concise History, Columbia University Press, New York, 2007.
TEN—THE GULF
Clancy, Tom, with General Fred Franks Jr., Into the Storm: A Study in Command, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1997.
De La Billiere, General Sir Peter, Storm Command: A Personal Account of the Gulf War, Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 1992.
Finlan, Alastair, The Gulf War 1991, Osprey, Oxford 2003.
Friedrich, Otto, editor, Desert Storm: The War in the Persian Gulf, Time Warner, New York, 1991.
Glosson, General Buster, War with Iraq: Critical Lessons, Glosson Family Foundation, Charlotte, 2003.
Jaco, Charles, The Gulf War: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to, Alpha Books, Indianapolis, 2002.
Macgregor, Douglas, Warrior’s Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2009.
Marolda, Edward J., and Robert J. Schneller Jr., Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2001.
Rottman, Gordon L., Armies of the Gulf War, Osprey, Oxford, 1992.
Scales, Brigadier General Robert H. Jr., director, Desert Storm Study Project, Certain Victory: The U. S. Army in the Gulf War, Office of the Chief of Staff, United States Army, Washington, 1993.
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman, written with Peter Petre, It Doesn’t Take a Hero: The Autobiography (of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf), Bantam Books, New York, 1992.
Sweetman, Jack, American Naval History: An Illustrated Chronology of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775–Present, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1991.
Zaloga, Steven J., M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank 1982–92, Osprey, Oxford, 1993.
Zaloga, Steven J., M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural: Operation Desert Storm 1991, Osprey, Oxford, 2009.
ELEVEN—IRAQ
Fontenot, Gregory, E. J. Degen, and David Tohn, On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Naval Institute Press edition, 2005.
Fox, Robert, Iraq Campaign 2003: Royal Navy and Royal Marines, Agenda Publishing, London, 2003.
Gordon, Michael R., and General Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, Pantheon Books, New York, 2006.
Murray, Williamson, and Major General Robert H. Scales Jr., The Iraq War, A Military History, Belknap Press, Cambridge, 2003.
Purdum, Todd S., and the staff of the New York Times, A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq, Times Books (Henry Holt and Company), New York, 2003.
Reynolds, Colonel Nicholas E., Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond: The U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2005.
Rumsfeld, Donald, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, Sentinel, New York, 2011.
Zucchino, David, Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2004.
TWELVE—AFGHANISTAN
Jones, Seth G., In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2009.
Maley, William, The Afghanistan Wars, Palgreve, New York, 2002.
Neumann, Ronald E., The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan, Potomac Books, Washington, D.C., 2009.
INDEX
*The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.
Page numbers in italic indicate maps.
Aachen, Germany, 209
Abbottabad, Pakistan, 345–346
Abrams, Creighton, 279
Abrams tanks, 297, 307–308, 332, 334–335, 336
Abu al-Khasib, Iraq, 326
“aces,” 158–159, 161
Acheson, Dean, 240, 246
Adams, John, 12
Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, 328
Aden, Yemen, 344
Adriatic Sea, 134
AD Skyraiders, 250
aerial photography, 159
Afghanistan (2001-2014), xvi, 318, 341–353, 342, 365
Africa, 135, 136, 199
African-Americans, 76, 85, 147, 163, 194, 273
Afrika Korps, 189
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 116
Airacobras, 183
aircraft carriers, 178–179. See also specific aircraft carriers
aircraft used in war, 158–161, 169. See also specific aircraft
Air Force. See U.S. Air Force
air-to-air refueling, 251
Aisne River, 129
AK-47s, 351
Alabama, 42, 70, 76, 83, 95
Alamo, 51
Alaska, 183, 218, 228
Al Aziziyah, Iraq, 329
Albany, NY, 9, 10, 11
Albert (King of Belgium), 127
Aleutian Islands, 218–219, 228
Alexander, Sir Harold “Alex,” 189, 201
Alexandria, VA, 39
Al-Faw Peninsula, Iraq, 319, 325
Algiers, Algeria, 189
Allenby, Edmund, 133
Allied powers, WWII, 171–172, 184, 187, 233–234. See also America; Great Britain; Russia
Almond, Edward, 245
Almond, Ned, 250
al-Qaeda, 331, 344–345, 347, 348–349, 350, 351, 352, 353
Alsace, France, 125, 127, 128, 165, 166
al-Sahhaf, Mohammed Saeed “Baghdad Bob,” 333, 335
al-Saud, Khalid bin Sultan, 299, 310
Alvarez, Everett, 262–263
“Ambush Alley,” Iraq, 328
America at war, xv–xvii. See also casualties; U.S.; specific foreign governments, geographic locations, and wars
American Expeditionary Force (AEF), 143, 144–148, 149, 152–154, 156–158, 163, 167, 171, 172
American Foreign Ministry, 56
American Signal Corps, 109
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 148
America’s Longest War (Herring), 283
Amiens, France, 155–156
amphibious operations, 54, 192, 199, 223, 242, 300
Ampudia, Pedro de, 50, 51
Andrew Doria (Continental brig), 12
Ankara, Turkey, 295
An Nasiriyah, Iraq, 323, 324, 327–328, 330
An Numaniyah, Iraq, 329
Ansar al-Islam, 331
Antietam, MD, xv, 79–80, 81, 87, 97
Antung,
China, 243, 252
Antwerp, Belgium, 209
Anzio, Italy, 192, 193
Apache helicopters, 301, 321, 328, 329
Ap Bac, Vietnam, 260–261
Apennine Mountains, 192
Apollo Program, 208
Appomattox Court House, VA, 96
Archangel, Russia, 183
Arctic Circle, 183
Ardennes, 209
Argentia in Placentia Bay, 184, 185
Argonne, France, 162
Arista, Mariano, 50
Arizona, 49, 64, 162, 263
Arkansas, 71
armored warfare, 308
Armstrong, Neil, 251
Army. See U.S. Army
Army of Northern Virginia, 71, 73, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 92, 93, 94, 95–96, 96, 98, 99
Army of the Cumberland, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92
Army of the Potomac, 71, 72–73, 73–74, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83–84, 87, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), 260, 261, 271, 273, 274, 275, 276, 279–280, 282, 283
Army of the Tennessee, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92
Arnold, Benedict, 5, 6, 10, 11, 16
Arnold, Henry H., 186–187, 292
Arras, France, 139–140
As Samawah, Iraq, 323, 324
Associated Press, 227
Atlanta, GA, 91, 92
Atlantic Charter, 184–185, 185–186
Atlantic Monthly, 333
Atlantic Ocean, 13, 64, 149, 195, 196, 197
“Atlantic Wall, the,” 202
atomic bombing, Japan, 230–231, 235–236
Attu, Aleutian Islands, 218–219
Auschwitz camp, Germany, 211
Australia/Australians
Afghanistan (2001-2014), 352
Gulf War (1990-1991), 296, 304, 352
Iraq (2003-2011), 319
Korea (1950-1953), 249, 352
Vietnam (1965-1975), 269, 352
World War I (1914-1918), 137, 155–156
World War II (1939-1945), 212, 213, 215, 221, 227, 229
Austria, 180
Austrian-Hungarian Empire, 124, 125, 132, 133, 134–135, 164, 166, 167
Avengers, 182
Axis powers, WWII, 187. See also Germany; Italy; Japan
B-17 Flying Fortresses, 192, 198, 199
B-24s, 192, 196, 198, 199
B-25s, 214
B-29s, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230, 235, 236
B-52s, 274–275, 278, 280, 281, 345
Baghdad, Iraq, 297, 301, 302, 312–313, 318, 319, 320, 323, 324–325, 327, 329, 330, 331–336, 337, 338, 340
Bahrain, 295
Bahr al Milh, Iraq, 332
Baker, James A., 295–296, 299, 300, 304
Balkans, 164, 166
Baltic states, 132
Baltimore, MD, 33, 34, 39, 42
Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 343
Bancroft, George, 54
Banks, Nathaniel P., 90
Barbary pirates, 32
Barry, Stephen, 335–336
Barton, Clara, 113
Basra, Iraq, 309, 319, 325, 326, 334
Bastogne, Belgium, 209
Bataan Death March, 213
Battle of Britain, 182
Battle of the Atlantic, 195, 196
Battle of the Bulge, 209, 210
Battle of the Saints, 21
battles. See specific battles (listed by geographic location)
Baylies, Frank, 160
Beatty, David, 149
Beaver Dam, Canada, 36
Beirut, Lebanon, 311
Belgium
1812, 41
Korea (1950-1953), 249
World War I (1914-1918), 124, 127, 128, 129, 130–131, 136–137, 140, 142, 150, 159, 162, 167, 169
World War II (1939-1945), 182, 202, 208, 209
Belleau Wood, France, 154–155, 158
Belmont, MO, 86
Bennington, VT, 10, 23
Bentonville, NC, 92
Berlin, Germany, 141, 200, 212
Bermuda, 38, 75, 180
Between the States (1860-1865), 64–65, 67–100, 68, 69, 357
Biddle, Nicholas, 12
Bien Hoa, Vietnam, 263
“Big Week,” 200
Bin Laden, Osama, 344, 345, 346, 351
Bizerte, Tunisia, 190
Black Hawk Down (Bowden), 334
“Black Rattlers,” 369th Infantry, 147, 163
Black Sea, 137
Bladensburg, MD, 38–39
Blair, Tony, 317
Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, 197
blockades
Between the States (1960-1865), 71, 74, 75, 85, 98
1812, 34–35, 37, 41, 42
Mexico (1846-1848), 49, 51, 55
Spain (1898), 104, 107, 111–112, 113
World War I (1914-1918), 141–142, 171
bloodiest day in American history, 80, 84
Blücher (German offensive), 153
Bolsheviks, 124, 132, 164
Bonhomme Richard, 16
Bonk, David, 153
Bordeaux, France, 128
Borneo, 215
Bosnia, 124, 125
Boston, MA, 3, 4, 5, 6, 34
Bougainville, New Guinea, 218, 221
Bouresches, France, 154
Bowden, Mark, 334
Bowdoin College, 83
Bradley, Omar, 207–208, 250, 320
Bradleys, 332, 335
Bragg, Braxton, 78, 87, 88, 89
Brandywine Creek, PA, 8, 9
Braun, Werner von, 208
Bravo, Nicolás, 59
Breed’s Hill, Boston, 4
Bremer, L. Paul, 338–339
Britain/British. See Great Britain
British East India Company, 42
British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 128, 130, 136, 137
Brock, Isaac, 30, 31
Broke, Philip, 37
Brooke, Sir Alan, 187, 200
Brooklyn, NY, 6
Brown, Jacob, 38
Brown, Noah and Adam, 35, 41
Brusilov, Alexei, 132
“Bubiyan Turkey Shoot, the,” 303
Buchanan, Franklin, 74
Buchanan, James, 56, 61
Bucharest, Romania, 133
Buchenwald camp, Germany, 211
Buckner, Simon, 218–219, 228, 229
Buddhist monks in Saigon, 261–262
Buell, Don Carlos, 78, 86–87
Buena Vista, Mexico, 51, 62
Buffalo Soldiers, 109, 110
Buford, John, 82
Bulgaria, 133, 134, 135, 164, 167
Bullard, Robert Lee, 156
Bull Run, VA, 71, 72, 77
Bulow, Karl von, 127, 128
Bunker Hill, Boston, 4
Burdick, Clinton, 161
Burdick, Howard, 161
Burgoyne, John, 4, 9–10, 11, 20, 22, 40
Burma, 198, 225, 236
Burnside, Ambrose E., 79, 81, 87, 95
Bush, George H. W., 228, 291, 292, 295, 296, 299, 304, 305, 309, 312
Bush, George W., 317, 318, 320, 321, 337, 339, 340, 345, 348, 349, 351
Butler, Benjamin, 90, 93
C-47s, 206
Caen, France, 207
California, 49, 53–54, 64
Cambodia, 214, 259, 261, 269, 272, 278, 279, 284
Cambrai, France, 128, 140
Cambridge, MA, 4
Camden, SC, 17, 19
Camels, 169
Cameroon, 136
Canada/Canadians
Afghan
istan (2001-2014), 347
1812, 28, 29–30, 30–31, 33, 34, 35, 36–37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43
Gulf War (1990-1991), 296
Independence (1775-1783), 5–6, 10, 18
Korea (1950-1953), 249
World War I (1914-1918), 140, 155–156
World War II (1939-1945), 206, 207, 209, 219
cannons, 6, 160, 168
Cantigny, France, 153, 155, 156, 158
Cape Charles and Cape Henry, 20, 22
Cape Cod, 195
Cape Gloucester, 221
Cape Horn, 33
Caporetto, Italy, 135
Caribbean, 13, 21, 29, 32, 39, 103, 180, 195
Caroline Islands, 136
Carter, Jimmy, 291
Casablanca, Morocco, 189, 190, 194
Casa Mata, Mexico, 59
Cassady, Thomas, 160
Cassino, Italy, 192–193
casualties, xv–xvi
Afghanistan (2001-2014), 344, 345, 350, 352
Between the States (1860-1865), 73, 77, 78, 79–80, 81, 83, 84, 87, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 99–100
1812, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42
Gulf War (1990-1991), 301, 305, 306, 309, 310, 312, 313
Independence (1775-1783), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20
Iraq (2003-2011), 319, 322, 323, 324, 326, 327, 329, 333, 334–335, 337, 339, 340
Korea (1950-1953), 239, 241, 246, 247, 249, 251
Mexico (1846-1848), 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60
Spain (1898), 103, 104, 106, 110, 111, 114, 115, 118
Vietnam (1965-1975), 257, 262, 263, 264, 267, 268, 270–271, 271–272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 280, 281, 282
World War I (1914-1918), 124, 128, 129, 130, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 145, 150, 151, 152, 154–155, 156, 157, 159, 161, 162, 163, 165, 167–168, 172
World War II (1939-1945), 178, 188, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 234–235
Caucasus Mountains, 132, 135
Celebes, 215
Cemetery Ridge, PA, 82
Central Command, 292, 293, 298, 299, 300, 301, 308, 310, 318, 322
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 267, 269, 321, 345, 351–352
Central Pacific, WWII, 177, 221, 223
Cerro Gordo, Mexico, 55, 60, 62
Cervera y Topete, Pascual, 105, 111, 112
Ceylon, 229
Challenger 2 tanks, 326
Chamberlain, Joshua, 83
Chancellorsville, VA, 81, 93
Chapultepec, Mexico, 59–60, 62
Charleston, SC, 14, 17
Charlotte, NC, 18
Châteauguay, Canada, 36
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