ROGER J. SPILLER is Professor of Combined Arms Warfare and Deputy Director of the Combat Studies Institute at the U.S. Army Commander and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was Editor of the original Dictionary of American Military Biography (Greenwood, 1984) and is the author of Not War But Like War: The American Intervention in Lebanon.JOSEPH G. DAWSON, III is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Army Generals and Reconstruction: Louisiana, 1862-1877 and was the Associate Editor of the original Dictionary of American Military Biography (Greenwood Press, 1984).