The U.S. Military Online: A Directory for Internet Access to the Department of Defense

by William M. Arkin

The first directory of its kind, The U.S. Military Online contains pointers to well over 2,000 official military Internet sites and resources at the Pentagon and at more than 200 installations throughout the world. Revised to include a new chapter on doing business with the Department of Defense and over 300 new Web sites, this unique guidebook enables you download Pentagon press conferences, speeches, testimony, statistics, and fact sheets; follow developments in international hot spots; find resources for tracking the defense budget and the Defense Department's research, development, test, evaluations, and contracting activities; track U.S. military units around the world and locate military personnel; read and save military magazines and journals, official manuals, and regulations; connect with military research sites dealing with weapons, cyberwar, modeling and simulation, intelligence, telecommunications, space, and future warfare; access Pentagon think tanks, schools and war colleges, libraries, military history resources, and museums; learn about weapons, from small arms to next-generation systems; and eavesdrop on, and participate in, warfighting studies and exercises.

242 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997

About the author

William M. Arkin is author, most recently of On That Day: The Definitive Timeline of 9/11 (PublicAffairs), History in One Act: A Novel of 9/11 (Featherproof Books), and The Generals Have No Clothes (Simon & Schuster). He is an Army veteran and long-time national security analyst, and other of more than a dozen other books on military affairs. He writes for Newsweek magazine.