Table of Contents

2008 Winter

States of War

Introductory

• The Gulf of Time: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

Calls to Arms

• Lt-Col. Tim Collins Blows the Trumpet of Rightful Destruction: 2003 / Kuwait
• Lt-Gen. Sir Stanley Maude Presents the Gift of Freedom to the People of Iraq: 1917 / Baghdad
• Pope Urban II Summons the Faithful to Holy Crusade: 1095 / Clermont
• Achilles Prepares for Battle: c. 1250 BC / Troy
• Gen. George Patton Addresses the Troops: 1944 / East Anglia
• Pauline Léon Demands a Woman's Right to Shed Blood: 1791 / Paris
• Bertran de Born Savors the Sweetness of War: c. 1181 / Hautefort
• John Ruskin Observes That War Gives Birth to Art: 1865 / Woolwich
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Brings the Song of the Sword to Harvard’s Graduating Class: 1895 / Cambridge
• Lenin Preserves the Russian Revolution: 1918 / Petrograd
• Sultan Selim I Sends Greetings to the Emperor of Russia: 1514 / Istanbul
• St. Augustine Classifies War as an Act of Benevolent Curiosity: c. 412 / Hippo
• Osama bin Laden Issues a Fatwa: 1998 / Afghanistan
• Joseph Goebbels Proposes the Rescue of Western Civilization: 1943 / Berlin
• War Comes Dressed in the Spirit of Friendship: 1914 / Berlin-St. Petersburg
• The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy: 1917 / Washington, D.C.
• Krishna Opens the Doors of Heaven: c. 1200 BC / India
• Queen Elizabeth I Takes Up Arms Against King Philip II of Spain: 1588 / Tilbury
• Battle Hymn of the Republic: 1861 / Boston
• Why the Sun Moves: 1506 / Tenochtitlán
• Moral Imperative: 2002 / Washington, D.C.
• A British Chieftain Defies the Imperial Legions of Rome: c. 84 / Caledonia
• Tecumseh Brings the Choctaws and Chickasaws the Voice of Rebellion: 1811 / Mississippi Territory
• Henry V Lands on the Beaches of Normandy: 1415 / Harfleur

Rules of Engagement

• By the Book: 2005 / Haditha
• Boots on the Ground: c. 1600 / Rhineland
• Scipio Divides the Spoils: 209 BC / New Carthage
• Voices of Doom: 1994 / Rwanda
• Disarmament Treaty: 1063 / Thérouanne
• Richard Nixon Thinks Big: 1972 / Washington D.C.
• Exchange of Courtesies: 1356 / Poitiers
• Fair Warning: 1945 / Japan
• A Sporting Proposition Sportingly Declined: 1517 / Cairo
• Winston Churchill Questions the Wisdom of Playing the Gentleman: 1944 / London
• Two Generals Contest the Definition of Cruelty: 1864 / Atlanta
• Sun Tzu Reconnoiters the Terrain: 512 BC / China
• The Israeli Army Sets Up the Goal Posts: 2004 / Rafah
• Yamamoto Tsunetomo on the Reason for Wearing a Mustache: 1716 / Japan
• The CIA Sends Advice and Consent: 1954 / Guatemala City
• Casus Belli: 1962 / Washington, D.C.
• The News Media Look for a Headline: 1969 / Tegucigalpa
• Imperial Band Music: 390 / Rome
• Curzio Malaparte Goes to School with the Wehrmacht: c. 1944 / Ukraine
• The Price Paid for Defeat: 1945 / Potsdam
• Q & A: 1862 / Tennessee
• Joseph Heller Gets the Catch: c. 1943 / Pianosa
• The Strong Do What They Can, and the Weak Submit: 416 BC / Melos

Field Reports

• First Blood: c. 1970 / Vietnam
• Regime Change: c. 1453 / Constantinople
• Virgil Bestows on the King of Troy the Consolation of an Immortal Death: c. 1250 BC / Troy
• The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner: 1942 / B-24 Liberator
• George Orwell Reflects on the Blood Bubbling Out of His Mouth: 1938 / Catalonia
• Clovis Converts to Christ: c. 496 / Tolbiac
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline Bids Farewell to His Colonel: c. 1914 / Ypres
• The Light Brigade Disappears into the Smoke: 1854 / Balaclava
• The Roman Empire Gives Way to the Goths: 378 / Adrianople
• Cruel and Insatiable Greed: 1527 / Rome
• Casualty Report: 1676 / New England
• Unholy Slaughter: 70 / Jerusalem
• Asymmetric Warfare: 1542 / Hispaniola
• Mary Jemison Caught Up in the French and Indian War: 1758 / Pennsylvania Frontier
• Herodotus Drinks from the Cup of Victory: c. 440 BC / Scythia
• John Keegan Revisits the Battlefield: 1415 / Agincourt
• Blood and Flies: 1944 / Peleliu
• Siegfried Sassoon in No Man’s Land: 1917 / Hindenburg Trench
• The “Pinkville” Incident: 1969 / My Lai
• Walt Whitman Records an Inkling of War: 1861 / Virginia
• England Expects, Nelson Confides: 1805 / Cape Trafalgar
• Zyklon-B: c. 1943 / Majdanek
• Totem Pole: 1945 / Nagasaki

Postmortems

• Jessica Lynch Speaks Truth to Power: 2007 / Washington, D.C.
• John Dos Passos at the Tomb of the Unknown: 1921 / Arlington
• E. E. Cummings Told Him: 1944 / New York City
• Voltaire Defines War as the Work of a Deformed Imagination: 1764 / Paris
• William James Proposes the Moral Equivalent of War: 1906 / Stanford
• "Bed 26, Amputated Thigh": c. 1916 / Western Front
• War Prayer: 1905 / New York City
• Henry Stimson Defends the Use of the Atomic Bomb: 1947 / Washington, D.C.
• Farewell to the Roman Republic: 48 BC / Pharsalus
• Dulce Et Decorum Est: c. 1918 / Flanders
• Let War Be War and Not a Game: 1812 / Moscow
• Cure for an Addiction: 1983 / New York City
• “Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron”: 1953 / Washington, D.C.
• W. H. Auden Reconfigures the Shield of Achilles: 1953 / New York City
• “With Malice Toward None”: 1865 / Washington, D.C.
• William Golding Returns to the Isthmus: 1965 / Thermopylae
• ’Twas a Famous Victory: 1704 / Blenheim

Departments

Essays

• Storm Warning: by Caleb Carr
• Imperial Hubris: A German Tale: by Fritz Stern
• The Persian Way of War: by Tom Holland
• Band of Brigands: The Criminality of Modern Warfare: by John Mueller

Conversations

Letters

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