2025: List of Indexing Projects
Happy New Year! Below is a chronological listing of all the books I indexed over the course of 2025, plus two other indexing projects I worked on.
Published Book Indexes
“Decoding Iran’s Foreign Policy” part of the MEI Policy Series, by Ross Harrison, published by Bloomsbury.
In this book, author Ross Harrison analyzes Iranian foreign policymaking today. He explores how current policy is influenced by historical interactions and conflicts and discusses Iran’s perspective on regional and global politics by looking at seminal events such as the 1953 coup against Mossadegh, the 1979 Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. along with the subsequent American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. He analyzes Iran’s views of itself and its role in the region; and he assesses Iran’s conventional diplomacy, military, and militia-based capabilities. Throughout his analysis, the author ties in discussion of how influential factors such as historical memory, ideology, and pragmatism play a role in Iranian leaders’ worldviews, strategic decision-making, and potential futures.
“Driven,” by Tom Johnson, published by University of Georgia Press.
Starting with his childhood in Georgia, Tom Johnson describes his youthful work ethic and early drive to succeed, and how that drive propelled him through his roles in his high school and college newspapers, to the Lyndon B. Johnson White House and then the (LBJ) family company, before moving on to the LA Times and eventually, CNN. Johnson reflects on his experience of the events of the 1960s as well as his profound and lifelong love of journalism; he provides anecdotes not just about his career, but about his family and the people he worked with; and he gives insights into the impacts workaholism and depression, noting how his career drive affected his personal life and his family in particular. He also discusses the current state of journalism and news media, and offers advice for news consumers, producers, and media owners based on his own gathered wisdom.
“Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture in the Military,” edited by Jeff R. Watson, Richard Wolfel, & Adam Kalkstein, published by West Point Press.
This multi-authored volume examines various attempts by the U.S. Armed Forces to incorporate language, regional expertise, and culture (LREC) training into their own professional military education and specialized training curricula. The chapters feature reviews of literature, including academic research as well as U.S. military policy documents, and case studies from current projects; they address the need for assessment of culturally minded leadership skills and language proficiency, providing solutions for fulfilling those needs; they also analyze LREC curriculum development methods and course impacts. Two of the chapters examine the implementation and outcomes of specific LREC programs at the U.S. Air Force and Naval academies, while other chapters provide examinations of the different aspects of the role of LREC in modern conflict and cross-cultural leadership, the role of culture and linguistics in political discourse and cross-cultural communication, and ways in which gaps in LREC outcomes have been identified and remedied.
“Arms, Letters, and the Humanities: Essays at the Nexus of Language, Culture, and Military Themes,” edited by John Pendergast, published by West Point Press.
This multi-authored volume examines how military conflicts permeate society and influence cultural production today and throughout history. It analyzes discourse dating from the Middle Ages to current online Reddit discussions, covering moral issues and attitudes towards violence and war, and how those issues are reflected in literature, poetry, music, news media, and cinema. The book is divided into sections that present a wide range of discussions of how soldiers are represented in literature, theater and cinema, and music, to the more granular analysis of how war influences semantics and how language is used as a tool for both propaganda and resistance. Overall, this book provides insights into the interplay between war and society.
Two More Indexing Projects
Florida Legislature
2025 Laws of Florida Index, Florida Statutes Index, and Definitions Index
Florida Statutes, Laws of Florida, and Definitions indexes are published online as well as in print format. Read my Substack posts on the topic, here:DNSA
CIA Covert Operations: The Truman Years
The National Security Archive used to publish print document sets (similar to FRUS), then moved to both print and digital formats, before eventually dropping the printed volumes and publishing exclusively online via ProQuest in the DNSA database. Read my Substack posts on the topic, here:Indexes Available on My Website
There are four indexes available for free on my website, as an example of my work. Three are to previously published books, and the fourth link is to the full text of the e-book on General Martin E. Dempsey.
