Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

17. Nothing but Trouble: The British Experience on the Afghan Frontier, 1849–1925
Marriott, Virginia Suite C

Chair: Edmund D. Potter, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
Papers:

Soldiers, the Frontier, and the Politics of Command in British India
Ian F. W. Beckett, United States Marine Corps Research Center

“ We Give the Afreedemen Fits”: The 1897 Tirah Campaign
Melvin Charles Smith, United States Military Academy

An Imperial Frontier in Crisis: The Third Afghan War and Its Aftermath
Mark Jacobsen, United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College

Comment: Jennie Keisling, United States Military Academy, West Point