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Friends,
Welcome to H-WAR, an electronic list and bulletin board devoted to the
scholarly study of military history. It has taken some time to deal with a
few technical problems (library expansion here at Kansas State has caused
some interruptions in mainframe availability, include an accidentally
severed cable on Monday), but we are up and running now. So please allow me
to launch our enterprise with a greeting to all of you.
I should begin by introducing myself. My name is Mark Parillo, and I am
on the faculty of the History Department at Kansas State University, where I
have been working for the past two and a half years. I earned my Ph.D. from
Ohio State in 1987 military history under the tutelage of Professor Allan
Millett. My own research has centered on warfare in the industrial age, with
a special focus on transportation systems in the Pacific theater of World
War II.
Our co-editor is Dr. Henry Lowood of Stanford University. I will allow
him to introduce himself in his own way over the next few days.
Please let me make it clear from the start that I do not yet have a firm
grasp on many of the technical aspects of list editing, so I ask for your
forbearance if and when we run into occasional snafus. We may also expect
additional computer shutdowns for short periods as construction on campus
dictates.
It should be clear from this that my interest in assisting with this
list lies not in any inherent joy in the technology of the Internet but
rather in my belief in this list's potential value as a research and
communications tool for teachers, librarians, and researchers in the field
of military history. Let us work together to realize this potential.
The questionnaires all of you list members have filled out have been
helpful in assessing the list's clientele, but at this point I would like to
suggest that we begin with some simple introductions so that all list
members can gain some sense of the diversity and impressive nature of
backgrounds, expertise, and interests of our group.
Accordingly, feel free to send a short message about yourself, areas of
military history that interest you, and perhaps a word or two about what you
hope H-WAR will offer to you.
Again, welcome to H-WAR.
Let's get to work.
Mark Parillo
H-WAR Co-Editor
Department of History
Kansas State University
war@ksu.ksu.edu
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