1Culture, Genes, and War -- 1 -- 2 Traditional American Thinking about the Conduct of War -- 19 -- 3 Legacy of World War II: Man versus Machine -- 37 -- 4 Truman and the Evolution of National Military Strategy and Doctrine -- 63 -- 5 Korean War: The Opening Phases, 1950-51 -- 83 -- 6 Korean War: The Final Phases, 1951-53 -- 115 -- 7 Eisenhower and Massive Retaliation -- 147 -- 8 Civil-Military Relations and the National Military Command Structure -- 169 -- 9 Limited War: Kennedy and McNamara -- 201 -- 10 Vietnam War: The Opening Phases, 1955-67 -- 229 -- 11 Vietnam War: The Final Phases, 1967-75 -- 265 -- 12 Recovery and Reorganization of the U.S. Armed Forces -- 295 -- 13 Persian Gulf War: War without the People -- 317 -- 14 Persian Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm -- 339 -- 15 New American Way of War -- 377 -- 16 Second Persian Gulf War: The Conventional War -- 401 -- 17 Second Persian Gulf War: The Unfinished Insurgency War -- 437 -- 18 New American Citizenship -- 451 -- Appendix Military Map Symbols -- 459 -- Selected Bibliography: The American Culture of War -- 501.