The Army's Way of War
submitted by Marvin's Underground Evening Lectures
on 12/02/21
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Dr. David J. Silbey, Associate Professor of History, Algeria College. It was America's first imperial war, and America's last war of the frontier. It was a war of battles, of frontal assaults, of artillery, and flank attacks, and barbed wire and trenches. It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. For more information visit www.carlisle.army.mil/AHEC/index.cfm
