Dr. Charles E. Kirkpatrick is the Command Historian for V Corps in Heidelberg, Germany, where he is presently preparing a history of V Corps in Operation Iraqi Freedom. A retired Army Air Defense officer, he commanded units in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the United States. He also served as an assistant professor in the Department of History at the U.S. Military Academy; taught military history and tactics at the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School; and served at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He earned the B.A. and M.A. from Wake Forest University, and the Ph.D. in modern history from Emory University, where he was a Ford Fellow.Dr. Kirkpatrick is the author of Archie in the A.E.F.: The Creation of the Antiaircraft Service of the United States Army, 1917ñ1918 (1984); Defense of the Americas: The United States Army Campaigns of World War 2 (1991); An Uncertain Present and a Distant Future: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 (1992); Omar Nelson Bradley: The Centennial (1992); and ìRuck it up!î The Post-Cold War Transformation of V Corps 1990ñ2001 (forthcoming from the U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2005). He is also the author of numerous studies concerning air defense, command and control, the V Corpsí involvement in the Balkans and the ongoing Global War on Terrorism.