*Leadership and officership*Rights, privileges, and restrictions*Assignments, pay, career development, and promotions*Uniforms, awards, and decorations*Family matters and the social side of Army life: Published by Stackpole and its corporate predecessors for more than seventy-five years, this book is the bible for U.S. Army officers. Condensed from Army regulations--and the customs and traditions of the service--the guide provides the latest soldier information and frank advice on a variety of issues relating to service life. Also included is a directory of current Army web sites and installations worldwide.

Col. Robert J. Dalessandro, USA (Ret.), is chairman of the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission. He has been director of the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center and chief of military history at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, and is currently deputy secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission. He is revisor for Stackpole's Army Officer's Guide and author of Willing Patriots: Men of Color in the First World War, American Lions: The 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy in World War I, and Organization and Insignia of the American Expeditionary Force. Dalessandro lives in northern Virginia.