Explores how Americans waged war and condoned violence against enemy noncombatants.

Originally published: 2005.

The first way of war's origins in colonial America -- The first way of war in the North American Wars of King George II, 1739-1755 -- Continental and British Petite Guerre, circa 1750 -- The first way of war in the Seven Years' War, 1754-1763 -- The first way of war in the era of the American Revolution -- The first way of war and the final conquest of the Transappalachian West.