"The first annual military history symposium sponsored by the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, For Monroe, Virginia and hosted by the Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas." - Foreword, p. v.

Foreword - Introduction - Occupation and stability dilemmas of the Mexican War: origins and solutions / I.W. Levinson - The politics of war in the Department of the Missouri, 1861-1864 / D. B. Connelly - The US Army in the South: Reconstruction as nation-building / J. G. Dawson III - The Frontier Army and the occupation of the West, 1865-1900 / R. Wooster - The US Army and nation building and pacification in the Phillippines / B. M. Linn - Lost in the snow: the US intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War / Maj. J. Stamp - State Department soldiers: warlords, nationalists, and intervention / K. K. Reist - There and back again: constabulary training and organization, 1946-1950 / R. Cameron - Reconstructing the civil administration of Bremen, US ernclave / B. J. Adams - Victors and vanquished: Americans as occupiers in Berlin, 1945-1949 / W. Stivers - Ps, Gs, and UW-Korea style / R. L. Kiper - Special forces in Afghanistan: Oct 01-Mar 02 / R. W. Stewart - To succeed where others have failed: forming and training the Afghan National Army, 2004/ Lt Col. K. W. Farrell - Occupations: then and now / R. W Stewart - "The small change of soldiering" and American military experience / .Spiller.