Life of a soldier on the western frontier.
9780878425419 Life of a soldier on the western frontier. Agnew, Jeremy. Mountain Press 2008 266 pages $16.00 Paperback E81 Agnew, an Englishman who attended college in Colorado and has remained there...

Fighting right.
The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War, by Brian McAllister Linn (Harvard, 320 pp., $27.95) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE idea of an "American way of war" gained currency in 1973 with the publication of Russell Weigley's book of the same name, which contended that...

Jews in the Spanish army.
SIR: I was surprised to read in Michael Galak's article (December 2007) about the "Jewish regiments fighting alongside Christian defenders ... during the Arab invasion of the Iberian Peninsula". Many historians appear to be ignorant of this. In two dense histories of Spain I found references to...

Marshal Schomberg, 161.5-1690, "The Ablest Soldier of His Age ": International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe.
Marshal Schomberg, 161.5-1690, "The Ablest Soldier of His Age ": International Soldiering and the Formation of State Armies in Seventeenth-Century Europe, by Matthew Glozier. Brighton, Sussex Academic Press, 2005. xxiv, 250 pp. $69.50 US (cloth) $35.00 US (paper). The military career of Frederick Herman von Schomberg is...

Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies; with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861. (reprint, 1941).
1601050127 Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate armies; with a survey of military aeronautics prior to 1861. (reprint, 1941) Haydon, F. Stansbury. Scholar's Bookshelf 2006 421 pages $29.95 Paperback E492 In...

Automatic grenade launchers: new automatic 40 mm grenade launchers and ammunition are being produced as armies seek to bolster the firepower of infantry units deployed in the War on Terror. Much of this renewed interest results from experience gathered in Afghanistan and Iraq.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The US Army and US Marine Corps have been equipped with a 40-mm automatic grenade launcher (AGL) since the Vietnam War and the Soviet Army introduced a 30-mm AGL in 1971. The 40-mm Mk 19 AGL was initially developed in the mid-1960s to arm US...

India to give anti-terror lessons to foreign armies.
Byline: Rajat Pandit NEW DELHI: With the ever-growing spectre of terrorism looming large over the globe, more and more countries now want to learn from the Indian Army's substantial experience in dealing with militancy, insurgency and sub-conventional operations. The 1.13-million Army, the third largest in...

Fast moving 120mm mortars: the 120-mm mortar is the largest indirect fire support weapon integral to infantry battalions in many armies. A new generation of self-propelled weapons is now being fielded.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the US Army converts to its new modular brigade structure the service plans a 42% increase in the number of M120 towed and M121 self-propelled 120 mm smoothbore mortars in service, from 872 to 1242 weapons. Each mechanised infantry battalion equipped with the M2...

Ignorant armies clash by night.
William Dalrymple The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 Knopf, 2007, xxiii + 534pp. $30 The Sepoy Mutiny is one of those historic disasters that gets worse with the passage of time. The story has been told over and over...

China, India to hold joint Army exercises.
NEW DELHI: The world's largest and third-largest armies are likely to hold their first-ever joint military exercise in the near future, with Army chief Gen J J Singh now headed for China to take bilateral defence ties to a new high. "I am going to propose the...