Books by Brian McAllister Linn

After defeating the Philippine Republic's conventional forces in 1899, the US Army was broken up into small garrisons to prepare Luzon for colonial rule. The Filipino nationalists transformed their resistance into a guerrilla warfare that varied greatly from region to region. The study offers new insights for counterinsurgency theory and for the study of America's military experience in Asia.

When the Army drafted Elvis in 1958, it set about transforming the King of Rock and Roll from a rebellious teen idol into a clean-cut GI trained for nuclear warfare. Brian Linn traces the origins, evolution, and ultimate failure of the army's attempt to reinvent itself for the Atomic Age, and reveals the experiences of its forgotten soldiers.

Wars have defined the U.S. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts, developing the strategies, weapons, doctrines, and commanders that it hopes will guarantee future victory. Linn surveys the past assumptions-and errors-that underlie the army's many visions of warfare up to the present day.