Stephen Dau's The Book of Jonas is a marvelous, lyrical debut that examines the effects of war on everyone involved. Dau weaves together the stories...
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Spence, May 8, 2006 (view all comments by Spence)
At the turn of the century, America was involved in a distant quick war against a feeble regime. No one fully expected a long brutal insurgency that followed after their swift defeat. For five years after the President declared an end to combat operations the US Army was engaged in a fight over control of the complex villages and tribes of the ethnically and religiously divided country.
This was not current events but a conflict called the Phillipines insurrection.
This is a good, solidly researched, overview of this operation. This is a must read for anyone wishing to know the difficult transformation from a frontier Army to a global one. It focuses mostly on the build up of Regular Army formations to improve over the state Volunteer units (now National Guard) that fought unevenly.
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