Revolution Publishing

Military HistorIES of the Mexican Revolution

To initiate dialogue around the merits of the Mexican Revolution as a subject of military history on par with the other great conflicts of the Twentieth Century.

First and foremost, the “Revolution Publishing” imprint was founded to publish military histories about the Mexican Revolution, but it is also revolutionary in its merging of scholarly historiography with a platform independent of academia and the Big 5 publishers. Founded in 2015 after years of trying to work with scholarly presses, Revolution Publishing proposes to do what the establishment is both incapable of, and unwilling to do—publishing solidly researched histories without kowtowing to the Academy, with its leftist base and faddish post-modern reinterpretation of history that rejects objective truth as totalizing oppression and pushes the bounds of reasonable interpretations of events in order to promote a vision where perception is the new reality.

Revolution Publishing

Mission Statement

Joe Lee Janssens is the founder of Revolution Publishing LLC. A product of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets with a BBA in Finance, he worked for over 25 years in the Oil Field as a certified public accountant and certified management accountant. In 1996 he received a BA in Spanish from the University of Houston and after an assignment as the Finance Director for a U.S. company in Veracruz, Mexico, he returned to enroll in the History program at UH in 2001. He received an MA in History in 2004, with a thesis titled "The Mexican and U.S. Civil Wars: Frontier Culture, Sectional Rivalry, and the Military-Agricultural Complex."

In his dissertation, Maneuver Warfare and Military Economy in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915, Dr. Janssens examined the historical intersection of economics with national security and nation-building. Following on Clausewitz’s assertion that more than any other form of human endeavor war is most comparable to “business competition,” he investigated the similarities and complexities of operating in the global economy and directing maneuver warfare on the tactical, operational and strategic levels—concepts collectively referred to as “military economy.”

Books

What is an Imprint?

Joe Lee Janssens

Maneuver and Battle in the Mexican Revolution: Rise of the Praetorians

Maneuver and Battle in the Mexican Revolution: A Revolution in Military Affairs (Parts 1 and 2)

Maneuver and Battle in the Mexican Revolution: The Military-Agricultural Complex (Parts 1 and 2)

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Strategy and Tactics of the Mexican Revolution, 1910 - 1915

U.S. Army Intelligence in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915 (Volumes 1-3)​​

U.S. Army Intelligence in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915: Abridged Without Cited Documentation

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Zapata’s War: Campaigns against the Federal Army, 1911-1914

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