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Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Enter Sharpe -- 2. Joe Hooker: The Transformational Man -- 3. The Bureau of Military Information: Stands Up -- 4. First Test: The Chancellorsville Campaign "Sharpe you are the best man I know" -- 5. The Gettysburg Campaign: Movement to Contact -- 6. Gettysburg and Sharpe's Three Golden Gifts To Meade -- 7. "The Period of Inaction" -- 8. Enter Grant -- Plate section -- 9. The Overland Campaign -- 10. Petersburg and Intelligence Overhaul -- 11. The Siege of Petersburg -- 12. Settling with Early in the Valley -- 13. Winter Hiatus -- 14. The End -- 15. A Full Life: Sharpe's Progress -- 16. A Public Life -- 17. The Bugle Echoes -- Appendices -- APPENDIX A: Sharpe's Report of the Conduct of the 120th NY Volunteers at the Battle of Fredericksburg -- APPENDIX B: Members of the Bureau of Military Information (BMI), Army of the Potomac, 1863-65, and The Armies Operating Against Richmond, 1864-65 -- APPENDIX C: Strength of the Bureau of Military Information February 1863-April 1865 -- APPENDIX D: Expenditures of the BMI33 -- APPENDIX E: The BMI's Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) For the Battle of Chancellorsville Roads, Railroads, Fords34 -- APPENDIX F: Fords Across the Rappahannock & Rapidan Rivers -- APPENDIX G: Abstracts from Field Returns of the Army of Northern Virginia* -- APPENDIX H: Regiments/Battalions from which Deserters and Prisoners Were Interrogated by the BMI, Feb-Apr 1863 -- APPENDIX I: Order-of-Battle of Jackson's Corps at Chancellorsville Comparison of Babcock's Estimates -- APPENDIX J: Sharpe's Report Alerting Hooker of Lee's Imminent Invasion of the North that Led to the Gettysburg Campaign -- APPENDIX K: Sharpe's Recommendations on Psychological Warfare Policy to Encourage Confederate Desertions

Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The Quotations -- Ability -- Activity -- Adaptability/Adaptation -- Administration -- Admirals -- Adversity -- Advice -- Aggression -- Aggressiveness -- Airborne -- Airman -- Air Power -- Alliances/Allies/Coalition Warfare -- Amateurs -- Ambition -- Analysis -- Appeasement -- Army -- The Nature of Armies -- Peacetime Army -- Standing Army -- Artillery -- The Art of War -- Attack -- Attrition -- Audacity -- Auftragstaktik -- Authority -- Battle -- The Cost of Battle -- The Dynamics of Battle -- The Human Factor -- Love of Battle -- The Purpose of Battle -- Battlefield -- The Bayonet -- The Best You Can -- Blitzkrieg -- Bloodshed -- Boldness -- Bravery -- Brotherhood -- Bureaucracy -- Buzzwords -- Caesar -- Calculation -- Camp Followers -- Cannae -- The Captain -- Careerism -- Casualties -- Cavalry -- Celerity -- Censorship -- Centre of Gravity -- Chance -- Change -- Chaplains -- Character -- Chief of Staff -- Chivalry -- Circumstances -- Citizen Soldiers -- Civil Affairs -- Civilian Control of the Military -- Civil-Military Relations -- Class warfare -- Cohesion -- The Colours -- Combat -- Combined Arms -- Command -- The Commander -- Commanding General/Commander-in-Chief -- Command Selection -- Common Sense -- Communication -- Lines of Communication -- Competence -- Comradeship and The Band of Brothers -- Concentration -- Confidence -- Conscience -- Conscientious Objector -- Conscription -- Contact -- Contingency -- Contractors -- Control -- Cool head -- Conviction -- Co-operation -- Corruption -- Council of War -- Counter-Attack/Spoiling Attack -- Coup d'Oeil -- Courage -- General -- Moral Courage -- Physical Courage -- Court Martial -- Cowardice/Cowards -- Criticism -- Danger -- Daring -- Death -- Deception -- Decision/Decisiveness -- Declaration of War -- Defeat -- Defence.

This book offers one of the first comprehensive academic views on Just Cause, the December 1989 U.S. military intervention in Panama. It presents excellent positions for the reader to consider and give a comprehensive view of all of the factors and events that prompted the operation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. The Background (1905-1988) -- 1 PANAMA'S POLICY TOWARD THE UNITED STATES: LIVING WITH BIG BROTHER -- 2. WHEN ALL THE OLD BILLS CAME DUE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF U.S.-PANAMANIAN RELATIONS THROUGH 1989 -- 3. THE ROLE OF DRUGS IN THE U.S.-PANAMANIAN RELATIONSHIP -- II. The Prelude -- 4. INDICATIONS AND WARNING FACTORS -- III. The Operation -- 5. THE ANATOMY OF JUST CAUSE: THE FORCES INVOLVED, THE ADEQUACY OF INTELLIGENCE, AND ITS SUCCESS AS A JOINT OPERATION -- 6. COMMAND, CONTROL, COMMUNICATIONS, AND INTELLIGENCE (C3I) FACTORS -- 7. ASSESSING THE ROLE OF AIR POWER -- 8. THE ADEQUACY OF LOGISTIC SUPPORT -- 9. CIVIL AFFAIRS OPERATIONS -- 10. ASSESSING PRESS ACCESS TO INFORMATION -- IV. The Aftermath -- 11. THE FUTURE U.S. ROLE IN PANAMA -- 12. THE INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- 13. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- CHRONOLOGY -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.