Edited by Reid, Brian Holden

The essays on aspects of the Anglo-American approach to war range from study of volunteer soldiering in the Mexican War of 1846-48, analyses of operations in the two World Wars, to a reconsideration of the nature of future warfare.

Zealous for Annexation - volunteer soldiering, military government, and the service of Colonel Alexander Doniphan in the Mexican-American War, Joseph G. Dawson III; the Spanish-American War - land battles in Cuba, 1895-1898, Joseph Smith; General Allenby and the Palestine Campaign, 1917-1918, Matthew Hughes; the British Expeditionary Force and the difficult transition to peace, 1918-1919, Ian M. Brown; Small Wars and Imperial Policing - the British Army and the theory and practice of colonial warfare in the British Empire, 1919-1939, T.R. Moreman; Montgomery, morale, casualty conservation and Colossal Cracks - 21st Army Group's operational technique in North West Europe, 1944-1945, Stephen Hart; Tommy is No Soldier - the morale of the Second British Army in Normandy, June-August 1944, David French; the British Army and approaches to warfare sinde 1945, John Kiszely; manoeuvre theory in operations other than war, J.J.A. Wallace; the buffalo thorn - the nature of the future battlefield, Alistair Irwin.