This Guide to the Study and Use of Military History is designed to foster an appreciation of the value of military history and explain its uses and the resources available for its study. The Guide consists of four parts, Part One is general in nature and deals with the nature of history as a discipline, military history as a branch of that discipline, the uses of military history, and suggested methods of reading and study. Part Two is a guide to the areas of study and the materials available for study in each. It consists of seven bibliographical essays -one on the great military historians and philosophers, two on world military history, three specifically on American military history, and a final essay on the merging of American and world military history since the end of World War II. Part Three deals with US. Army historical programs and activities and how the Army uses or has used military history. This part informs the reader of the resources available within the Army for study and research in military history and some of the practical uses of history in staff work. Part Four similarly deals, albeit more briefly, with military history outside the Army-in other elements of the Department of Defense, in foreign military establishments, and in the academic world. Finally two appendices provide annotated listings of reference works and historical periodicals of greatest interest and utility to the student of military history.

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