31.   The brought lawyers and a military historian to the circle.

32.   The desire to keep information and expectations at a minimum stems directly from the experience of the Vietnam War, longtime military reporters and military historians say.

33.   The military has its own criminal justice system and that system is as much concerned with maintaining discipline as with enforcing justice, military historians say.

34.   The original script was written by Vietnam-era staffers who did not consult military historians or World War II veterans.

35.   The upshot is a visual feast and a graceful narrative by the finest military historian of our day.

36.   Virtually every prolonged aerial campaign in Europe in World War II was hampered by fog and rain, said Michael S. Sherry, a military historian at Northwestern University.

37.   Westover of Tucson, a retired Army officer and military historian, was the national president of his side.

38.   With the assistance of military historians, investigators also have entered the serial numbers of missing guns in a nationwide police computer system.

39.   Others, including many military historians and analysts, say the bomb was decisive in ending the war and forestalling a costly invasion of Japan.

40.   A military historian by training, Talpes has written dozens of books, mainly on defense and diplomatic issues.