U. S. ARMY ON THE MEXICAN BORDER: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- U. S. ARMY ON THE MEXICAN BORDER: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 BORDER SECURITY AND MILITARY SUPPORT: LEGAL AUTHORIZATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- MILITARY ASSISTANCE ALONG THE BORDER -- Restrictions -- Authorizations -- THE NATIONAL GUARD -- State Drug Plan -- Other Duty -- Homeland Defense Activity -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 THE US ARMY ON THE MEXICAN BORDER: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. SETTING THE STAGE: THE ARMY OF OBSERVATION AND ARMY OF OCCUPATION ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, 1845-46 -- The Texas Revolution -- The Army of Observation -- The US Army of Occupation -- Taylor's March to the Rio Grande -- 2. THE US ARMY AND MEXICAN BORDER SECURITY, 1850-61 -- Border Geography -- Deployment of US Army Forces on the Mexican Border -- Captain James H. Callahan and the Burning of Piedras Negras -- Cortina's War -- SUMMARY -- 3. THE US ARMY AND MEXICAN BORDER SECURITY, 1865-1910 -- Major General Sheridan and Napoleon III on the Rio Grande -- Deployment of Army Forces on the Mexican Border, 1870-86 -- Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie's Raid -- Brigadier General Edward Ord, William R. "Pecos Bill" Shafter, and Porfirio Diaz -- SUMMARY -- 4. THE US ARMY AND MEXICAN BORDER SECURITY, 1911-17 -- Diaz -- Huerta, Carranza, Villa, and Zapata -- Deployment of US Army Forces on the Mexican Border -- Major General Frederick Funston and the Plan of San Diego -- Pershing's Expedition and the Return of the Plan of San Diego Plotters -- SUMMARY -- 5. THE US ARMY AND MEXICAN BORDER SECURITY, 1919-PRESENT -- Deployment of US Army Forces on the Mexican Border and the Battle of Juarez, 1919 -- Immigration Issues and Operation WETBACK -- The US Army and Mexican Border Security, 1982-2005 -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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