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ABOUT THE EDITORS GEORGE R HOFMANN served in the U.S Army as an instructor and cadre in the Special Training Regiment at the U.S. Armor Training Center, and is a Distinguished Member of the 13th Armored Regiment. He holds master's degrees from Xavier University and the University of Cincinnati , where he also earned a doctorate in history. In addition, he completed a postdoctoral program in military law and justice at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He is a frequent contributor to ARMOR and the Journal of Military History (formerly Military Affairs). He also wrote articles for ARMY, the Marine Corps Gazette, the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies (RUSl), and the Journal of Slavic Military Studies. He is a contributing author to the Dictionary ofAmerican Biography; volume 3 of the Marine Corps University's Perspective on Warfighting; and author of Super Six: A History of the 6th Armored Division (1975) and Cold War Casualty: The Court-Martial of Major General Robert W. Grow (1993). Currently he is an adjunct associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in military history. He continues to serve by promoting local veteran activities, which included acquiring a M60A3 tank for the township's Veterans Park. DONN A. STARRY, General, U.S. Army (Retired), enlisted in the army in World War II, won an appointment to and graduated from West Point, and subsequently commanded armor units from platoon through corps. He served two tours in Vietnam and commanded the famous 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in the incursion into Cambodia in May 1970. In succession, he commanded the Armor Center and School at Fort Knox, the U.S. V Corps in USAREUR, TRADOC, and the U.S. Readiness Command , the predecessor of the U.S. Central Command of Desert Storm fame. He was the principal army staff designer of the post-Vietnam army force structure, then in the succession of commands noted, was primary architect of AirLand Battle—the army and joint force doctrine, equipment , organization, training, and education so dramatically successful in Desert Storm. He is the author of Mounted Combat in Vietnam (1977), and of more than a hundred articles for professional journals and encyclopedia . He is a graduate of the U.S. Army CGSC, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Army War College. He holds a master's degree 584 About the Editors and Contributors in International Affairs from George Washington University. He is chairman of the board of the U.S. Cavalry Memorial Foundation and Cavalry Association, and continues to serve as honorary colonel of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, which is currently serving as the Opposing Force at the National Training Center. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS JOSEPH H. ALEXANDER, Colonel, USMC (Retired), served twenty-eight years as an assault amphibian officer in the Marine Corps. He holds an undergraduate degree in history from North Carolina and master's degrees from Jacksonville and Georgetown universities. He is also a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College. He commanded a company in Vietnam and a battalion in Okinawa. As colonel, he was chief of staff of the 3d Marine Division in the western Pacific and director of the Research and Development Center. He is the author of Utmost Savagery: Three Days of Tarawa (1995), Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific (1997), and A Fellowship of Valor: The Battle History of the United States Marines (1997). As chief historian for Lou Reda Productions, he has created fifteen television documentaries for the Arts and Entertainment Network and the History Channel. PHILIP L. BOLTE, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Retired), graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1950. He is also a graduate of the Canadian Army Staff College and the U.S. Army War College, and holds a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. During his thirty years of army service he commanded armor units from platoon to brigade. He served in combat and was wounded in both Korea and Vietnam. Other assignments include service on the army staff and in the army secretariat; as assistant PM for tank main armament in the Abrams tank program; and as PM, Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems. He is a frequent contributor to ARMOR magazine. He is the president of the United States Cavalry Association and serves on the board of the Patton Museum foundation. STEPHEN A. BOURQUE is a graduate of the U.S...

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