"When we think about the future of war, the military and Washington and most everyone gets it backwards. We think in terms of buying single military systems, such as fighter jets or aircraft carriers. And when we think about modernizing those systems, we think about buying better versions of the same things. But what really matters is not the single system but "the battle network"--The collection of sensors and shooters that enables a military to...

The question presented is whether the state violated defendant's Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination by allowing evidence from a court-ordered mental evaluation to rebut a defense based on mental incapacity.

Buona sera, Mrs. Campbell: Carla Cambell receives maintenance payments by three former GIs who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter Gia. The fortune cookie: A TV cameraman, trampled by a half-back while shooting a football game, and his shyster brother-in-law team up to defraud an insurance company in a million dollar law suit.

This study of the cultural and military importance of British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served as communities in Indian country more than as bastions of British imperial power. Their security depended on maintaining good relations with the local Native Americans, who incorporated the forts into their economic and social life as well as into their strategies.

Young readers will learn how the hagfish protects itself by oozing a thick slime that can kill potential predators.

Red sorghum: When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army. Ju Dou: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage...