AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction 1 Military Realism: A New Perspective on Military Innovation2 Flexible Response, the Nuclear Battlefield, and Counterinsurgency: Kennedy and Army Doctrine in the 1960s3 Army Doctrine in the Shadow of Vietnam: Operations 19684 From Active Defense to AirLand Battle: The Cold War Doctrine of the '70s and '80s5 The Power-Projection Army: Doctrine in the Post-Cold War Era until the Eve of September 116 Transforming under Fire: The Global War on Terror, Counterinsurgency, Iraq, and Operations 2008ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex