Reflections on the War of Independence, modern guerrilla warfare, and the war in Vietnam /Don Higginbotham -- Founding a nation in blood : military conflict and American nationality / Charles Royster -- "Nor is their standing army to be despised" : the emergence of the Continental Army as a military institution / Robert K. Wright, Jr. -- The Philadelphia militia, 1775-1783 : active duty and active radicalism / Steven Rosswurm -- A "most undisciplined, profligate crew" : protest and defiance in the Continental ranks, 1776-1783 / James Kirby Martin -- Samson shorn : the impact of the Revolutionary War on estimates of the Republic's strength / Richard Buel, Jr. -- George III chooses a commander in chief / Ira D. Gruber -- What the British army learned / Piers Mackesy -- The general military significance of the American Revolution / Theodore Ropp.