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An active duty soldier posted this to the New York Times "At War" blog. http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/after-the-attack/ and it includes this paragraph: ** Since the beginning of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the Army has been quick to identify lessons learned, and has published them in Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) handbooks. Realizing that field manuals often take too long to formalize and publish (and that they are often outdated the minute they are publicly released), the Army has come to lean more and more on CALL handbooks. Today, any military command post is likely to have stacks of these handbooks. ** Last year the new field manual on counterinsurgency by General Petraeus became a very popular item, selling on Amazon and being downloaded thousands of times from websites like this. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24fd.pdf So if Captain Hsia is right and it is these CALL handbooks that really matter, who is collecting them for future military historians? -- Jonathan Beard jbeard@panix.com ----- For subscription help, go to: http://www.h-net.org/lists/help/ To change your subscription settings, go to http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=h-war -----
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