This volume, covering 1945 to 1992, is the third of three volumes on the role of federal military forces in domestic disorders. Summarizing institutional and other changes that took place in the Army and in American society during this period, it carries the reader through the nation's use of federal troops during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the domestic upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s associated with the Vietnam War. The development and refinement of the Army's domestic support role, as well as the disciplined manner in which the Army conducted these complex and often unpopular tasks, are major themes of this volume. In addition, the study demonstrates the Army's progress in coordinating its operational and contingency planning with the activities of other federal agencies and the National Guard. --from the Foreword.

Prologue. Laws governing the domestic use of troops ; Reorganization of the military departments ; Intelligence organization and procedures ; Contingency plans ; Riot control training. -- The road to Little Rock. Patterns of resistance ; A soldier-president ; Race and politics in Arkansas ; The developing crisis ; The federal response. -- Intervention at Little Rock. The Army prepares ; Casting the die ; The forces assemble ; The crisis contained ; Criticisms and legal views ; The second crisis ; The slow departure ; Epilogue. -- The road to Oxford. Freedom rides ; Tensions mount ; Final phase ; The Meredith case ; Efforts to avoid the use of force ; The tactical forces ; The president acts ; The growing crisis. -- The riot at Oxford. Military intervention ; The regulars ; Oxford in daylight ; Maintaining a military presence ; Redeployment and troubling incidents ; Reducing and rotating the force. -- Three troubled years. Birmingham: Operation Oak Tree ; Recommendations and planning ; Operation Palm Tree ; The march on Washington ; Birmingham and Tuscaloosa - again ; Other Steep Hill operations ; Voter registration ; New troubles replace old. -- Crisis in the North and West. The urban ghettos ; Tension rises ; Violence in Newark ; Taking stock ; The Detroit riot ; Federal intervention ; Deployment of federal troops ; The president acts ; The use of weapons by the National Guard ; Detroit in retrospective. -- Reflections on violence. Society and law ; The Army's role reconsidered ; Command and control ; Intelligence ; National Guard standards ; What was right with the Army ; Rebuilding the Guard ; Recommendations from the Hill ; The Army's own conclusions ; The Army's CIvil Disturbance Plan ; Intelligence planning and collection. -- The march on the Pentagon. The military and the protesters ; Plans and preparations ; The permit ; Military contingency planning ; Image and reality ; The march on the Pentagon ; Aftermath. -- The Washington riot of 1968. The government prepares ; The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Washington D.C. ; The request for troops ; Troop deployment and operations ; A city in turmoil ; Logistical support ; Phasedown and withdrawal. -- The Chicago and Baltimore riots. Trouble in Chicago ; Deployment of Federal troops ; Preparing for operations ; Operations in Chicago ; Casualties, property losses, and deadly force ; The Baltimore riot ; Federal intervention ; Organization for action ; Street operations ; The riot in retrospect. -- In the wake of the riots. Assessments and responses ; A new directorate ; Resurrection City, U.S.A. ; Organizing for the future ; The national political conventions ; Dissension in the ranks. -- Antiwar demonstrations and surveillance. The inauguration ; Domestic intelligence ; The Vietnam moratoriums ; Planning at year's end ; Political surveillance uncovered ; Legal aspects: constitutional and statutory. -- The end of the cycle. From New Haven to Kent State ; Disorder continued ; Review and revision ; May Day 1971: the last Vietnam antiwar crisis ; The elections and their aftermath ; Looking ahead. -- Toward a new century. Wounded Knee ; An expanding mission ; Riots in the post-Vietnam era ; In retrospect. -- Chart. Organization of the Department of the Army, April 1963. -- Tables. March on the Pentagon casualties ; Day-to-day troop deployments, 8-10 April (0830) -- Maps. Selected sites of civil disturbances and military installations, 1957-1992 ; University of Mississippi campus, September 1962 ; Detroit riot, 25 July 1967 ; March on the Pentagon, October 1967 ; Washington riot, April 1968 ; Chicago riot, April 1968 ; Baltimore riot, April 1968.