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Louis Morton

Louis Morton, chief of the Pacific Section of the Army’s Office of Military History, has written on military and colonial history. His latest book, The Fall of the Philippines , is a volume in the Army history of World War II.

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Military science was very rigid in the 1600’s. It quickly changed when Americans began to fight Indians

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