AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY COMPENDIUM

About the Book

Includes casualties and financial costs for military actions fought by the USA, territorial build-up of the US, annual battle deaths compared to populations and to the numbers of combatants, battle deaths and other casualties by individual battle and or campaign, financial costs for each war in "attime" dollars and in current dollars, and annual spending and direct costs of wars. Schedules by presidential terms include battle deaths, federal government spending, direct war spending, and government spending deficits or surpluses. The federal government incomes, spending, and surpluses or deficits are shown for the past 232 years. Defense department spending is shown for 65 years and as a percentage of gross domestic product for Years 2001 through 2008. Direct and total war costs are shown in at-time dollars and in Year 2007 dollars as percentages of nominal and real gross domestic product. The relative position of the USA is shown compared to other nations by geographic size, population, gross domestic product, military personnel, military spending, fire power, nuclear weaponry, and other available military assets and hardware.

About the Author

Donald F. Fies lives with his wife, Gale, in San Antonio, Texas. They have been married for fortysix years; and they have three sons and four grandchildren. Don was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, has a Master of Business Administration degree from The University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from Franklin & Marshall College located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.