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To: Bilow who wrote (40836)	8/29/2002 9:21:48 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Hi Carl - thanks for the links. I ordered a subscription to "Parameters" for my husband's birthday. The articles are good. I've probably mentioned (getting to the age when I tell the same stories over again) that he is related to General Emory Upton, who taught at the US Military Academy (as it then was) in Carlisle Pennsylvania. Upton Hall is named after General Upton. By a rather strange coincidence, my Chippewa great-grandmother attended the Carlisle Indian School a quarter century later, which is just down the street. By an even stranger coincidence, the recent debate about who should call the shots in war, the politicians or the brass, was something that General Upton had strong views about, and has shaped military doctrine ever since. He thought that the Civil War had too many civilian casualties because the politicians were too involved and were not competent. Part of it is sort of funny because it reminds me so much of my husband, "the Uptonian hunker."-g- carlisle-www.army.mil