"The Savage Wars of Peace" by Max Boot. I picked this book at the clothing and sales at APG and found a fascinating book detailing Americas obscure and forgotten conflicts. The Barbary wars 1801-1805, with sailors and marines, Preble, Decatur, O'Bannon. the Marquesas 1813 to China 1859. Korea 1871,Samoa 1899, boxer rebellion 1900. Philippine war 1899-1902,Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, 1898-1914.Haiti 1915-1934 with Marines Smedley Butler and Dan Daily both 2 time Medal of Honor winners.Dominican republic 1916-1924. Pancho Villa Punitive expedition 1916-17. Russia 1918-20. Nicaragua 1926-33. China 1901-41. Dominican Republic 1965. small wars in the 1980's and 90's
http://www.grunts.net/legends/butler.html
brian

I have another book about America's interventions, "The Banana Wars". It covers mostly Marine actions, but also has Army and Navy actions from, I believe, from end of the American Civil War up to WWI. Some great stories of small, but aggressive, forces defeating larger "insurgent" forces. The actions took place in the Carribean and Central American.

Over here, we have a compilation of documents from the Philippine-American War compiled by J.M. Taylor.

There's also a book on the American Occupation of the Philippines written by James Blount in 1912.

Some other books discussing this time period.
"U.S Marine Uniforms 1912-1940" by Jim Moran.
"The Old Corps; a potrait of the USMC between the wars" by Brigadier General Robert Hugh Williams(RET.)
"Maverick Marine; General Smedley D. Butler" by Hans Schmidt
"The Banana Wars" by Ivan Musicant
brian

A book about the U.S. Army from 1898-1940 "The Regulars" by Edward M. Coffman. From being a frontier constabulary to just before entering WW2. Covering the officer corps and enlisted personnel, wives and children, and civil-military relationships. It is an interesting book about how the U.S.Army of WW2 came into being from a small professional corp to just before it expanded into a multi-million man Army.
brian