Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness: Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest.
Alan D. Gaff. Bayonets in the Wilderness." Anthony Wayne's Legion in the Old Northwest. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. Pp. 419. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95. Given the awesome might of the armed forces that won the Civil War and both World Wars, it is...

Determinations of malingering: evolution from case-based methods to detection strategies.
Methods for the classification of malingering have advanced from idiosyncratic case studies to systematic research. As an outgrowth of individual feigning scales, detection strategies have been developed and validated that are conceptually based and tested across measures. This article briefly reviews detection strategies for two distinct domains: feigned cognitive...

Army goes shopping for close-combat rifles.
Byline: Rajat Pandit NEW DELHI: The Army's shopping spree shows no sign of stopping after deals or global tenders for more tanks, missiles and howitzers. This time, it wants to induct as many as 3,80,000 lethal carbines for its infantry soldiers and special forces. Kicking...

Mark Hoffman. "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War.
Mark Hoffman. "My Brave Mechanics": The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007. Pp. 470. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Tables. Cloth, $44.95. Mark Hoffman's "My Brave Mechanics" details the service of the First Michigan Engineers throughout America's most pivotal...

Jon Latimer. 1812: War with America.
Jon Latimer. 1812: War with America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Pp. 637. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Cloth, $35.00. No one has done for the almost-forgotten War of 1812 what Jon Latimer does in the refreshing, authoritative, and information-packed 1812: War with America. He has...

Walker.
Walker Directed by Alex Cox; screenplay by Rudy Wurlitzer; cinematography by David Bridges; starring Ed Harris, Peter Boyle and Marlee Matlin. DVD, color, 94 mins., 1987. A Criterion Collection release, www.criterionco.com, distributed by Image Entertainment, www.image-entertainment.com. Walker has long been an important film for me. It was...

Forward to the point: the key to winning a ground engagement is to be found in the accurate placement of devastating firepower. Whether this firepower comes from artillery or from air strikes is arguably immaterial, what is vital is that it destroys the intended target rapidly, on first strike with minimal collateral damage and risk to friendly forces.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The importance of fire accuracy has caused the role of the forward observer to dramatically increase in significance over the last century. Part of the reason being that as artillery has increased in range and accuracy, so the gunners have moved further away from each...

Benedict Kiely's troubles fiction: from postcolonialism to postmodernism.
From the beginning, Benedict Kiely has been a deeply 'rooted' writer, drawing inspiration from his native place in and around Omagh, Co Tyrone. Like the seanachai, he speaks from deep down in his environment, his stories a species of dinnseanchas, bedding the locale in their utterance, moving with the...

Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide.
Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide, edited by John Laband. The Greenwood Press Daily Life through History Series. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 2007. ix, 301 pp. $65.00 US (cloth). With warfare in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, and...

A tale of two leaders: Stanley Bruce and Kemal Ataturk.
THIS IS THE STORY of the parallel lives of two men who fought on opposite sides at Gallipoli. They each came to lead their countries, never met, but grew to respect and understand each other after the bloodletting on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915. Stanley Melbourne Bruce...