Brian Linn

Texas A&M University

Brian McAllister Linn is the Ralph R. Thomas Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is the author of five books on American military history, including Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940 (1997), The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (2000), The Echo of Battle: The Army’s Way of War (2007), and Elvis’s Army: GIs and the Atomic Battlefield (2016). He has published over thirty articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings and given numerous international lectures on the American Way of War, counterinsurgency, and the US Army. He has served as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Birmingham, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship, the Bosch Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, and a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow. In 1999-2000 he was the Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professor at the Army War College.

 This assignment is a 900 to 1,300 word essay (minimum and maximum) that requires students to use Company Commander and Platoon Leader as primary sources to answer a historical question. Students must upload their essays on Canvas—essays submitted via email or some other form will not be accepted. Students will have one opportunity to check their essays for plagiarism through the Turnitin option on Canvas. A student who fails to complete the research essay will fail the course regardless of the totals of his/her other assignments. No outside sources (Wikipedia, books, etc.) are required nor should they be referenced or used.