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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ The authors wish to thank several people and institutions for aiding us in a multitude of ways in the production of this work. Above all, we would like to thank our colleagues in the Department of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. Led by Orazio Ciccarelli and Charles Bolton, the former and present chairs respectively, our colleagues in the history department have recognized the worth of military history and have done much to support and augment our endeavors. With their support we were able to found the Center for the Study of War and Society through which this book was conceived and produced. The support of our colleagues has also made possible a regular faculty exchange with the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, which was equally important in making this book possible. We would like to thank everyone at Sandhurst for helping make our teaching stints there so productive and enjoyable, but we are especially grateful to Matt Midlane, the late John Pimlott, Duncan Anderson, and Paul Harris for their contributions to the faculty exchange. We would also like to extend our thanks to Tim Hudson, the Dean of International and Continuing Education at USM. His support was crucial in the founding of the exchange with Sandhurst and in our Study Abroad Program in Vietnam —which itself was instrumental to our research on Vietnam and to the chapter on post-traumatic stress disorder in this book. The editors and staff at New York University Press, most notably Niko Pfund and Despina Gimbel, also deserve many thanks for their hard work in making this book a reality. And finally, the authors would like to thank their wives—Laura Morgan and Jill Wiest—for their unfailing support during the work for this project and in our lives. ix x ...

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