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About Leggiere's War Studies Journal 2

The War Studies Journal is a scholarly venue for those who want to write about the big topics of warfare, strategy, campaigns, battles, theory, military revolutions, and technological change. It is a journal for scholars who wish to read the best of contemporary scholarship and debate military history in a peer-reviewed forum that will appear annually in print and online. The objective of the journal’s editorial board is to publish cutting-edge military history from antiquity to the contemporary period that informs the past, present, and future. The goal is to create a space for the serious discussion of military history, including its diplomatic, strategic, operational, tactical, and technological aspects, both chronologically and thematically.

The editorial board solicits submissions from leading scholars, experts, and early-career professionals on wide-ranging topics that will interest specialists in multiple disciplines and across multiple eras. Each volume contains original research articles, one essay that explores the historical antecedents of a contemporary issue, and a significant number of book reviews.

Table of Contents

1. Articles
   • “A Philosophical and Political Phenomenon, Worthy of All Attention and Following”: Foreign Inspirations of the Polish Militia Projects in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century by Michał Rastaszański
   • Forging the “General System of Military Operations”: Lazare Carnot and the Dynamics of French Revolutionary War Planning, 1793–1794 by Jordan R. Hayworth
   • The Unyielding General: Antonio Ricardos and His Forgotten Victories by Michael C. Hamel
2. Editor’s Choice
   • French Airpower Integration and the Second Battle of the Marne by Andrew M. Roberts
3. Book Reviews
   • Crusades and Violence: Past Imperfect by Megan Cassidy-Welch, reviewed by Michael S. Fulton
   • The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power by Nicholas A. Lambert, reviewed by Jay T. Young
   • The Wandering Army: The Campaigns That Transformed the British Way of War by Huw J. Davies, reviewed by Alexander S. Burns
   • Vivre la Grande Armée. Etre soldat au temps de Napoléon by François Houdecek, reviewed by Doina Harsanyi
   • L’Empire de la paix, de la Révolution à Napoléon. Quand la France réunissait l’Europe by Aurélien Lignereux, reviewed by Alexander Mikaberidze
   • The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, vol. IV edited by Christine E. Hughes and Charles E. Brodine, Jr., reviewed by Kevin D. McCranie
   • The Destruction of the Imperial Army , 4 vols. by Grenville Bird, reviewed by Frederick C. Schneid
   • World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence by Mark Stout, reviewed by Samuel Watson
   • The U.S. Eighth Air Force in World War II: Ira Eaker, Hap Arnold, and the Building of American Air Power, 1942–1943 by William Daugherty, reviewed by John M. Curatola