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MHQ Quarterly Journal of Military Magazine 2004 Autumn Vol 17 #1 Grants Scheming
MHQ Quarterly Journal of Military Magazine 2004 Autumn Vol 17 #1 Grants Scheming
Published quarterly. Cover: Spartans (right) confront Persians, in Massimo Taparelli's Battle of Thermopylae, 480 B.C. Barry Strauss' account of the heroic last stand of Spartan King Leonidas and his troops at Thermopylae begins on page 16.
6 / THE HORROR OF OUR SITUATION'
by Jennifer Margulis An often-overlooked factor behind the United States' wars against Barbary pirates was the plight of white Americans enslaved in North Africa.
16 / GO TELL THE SPARTANS
by Barry Strauss At Thermopylae a king and three hundred of his soldiers set the standard for battle to the death against overwhelming odds.
26 / THE SOUTH KOREAN ARMY'S AMERICAN GODFATHER
by Allan R. Millett One of aggressive General James Van Fleet's greatest accomplishments was reforming and expanding the battered Republic of Korea's army during the Korean War.
38 / PEENEMDARK LEGACY
by Shareen Blair Brysac The site where Nazi Germany's infamous vengeance weapons were developed serves as a reminder of the moral dimensions of science.
52 / `TO MY MEN WHO ARE DEAD...'
by Andrew McGregor Trading the sands of North Africa for the jungles of Tonkin, French Foreign Legionnaires fought off waves of Chinese attackers for thirty-six days in 1885 at remote Tuyen Quang.
62 / GRANT'S SCHEMING SUBORDINATE
by Steven E. Woodworth An ambitious politician turned general, John McClernand was never above undercutting a superior officer-even if he was Ulysses S. Grant.
70 / CAPTAIN EDDIE'S SECOND WORLD WAR
by Robert L. O'Connell World War I fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker soared in the early '40s as a hard-driving, blunt-talking proponent of the U.S. war effort...until he bypassed the State Department and landed in Moscow.
84 / YOUNG AMBITION:
CHARLES WILKES' ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE
by Nathaniel Philbrick The charting of the world's seventh continent-the highlight of the 1838-42 U.S. Exploring Expedition-is attributed to a U.S. Navy commander with an iron will but a frightening lack of sea experience.
DEPARTMENTS
48 / EXPERIENCE OF WAR: End of Empire
Translated and edited by Jonathan North An Imperial Guard's memoir of the 1814 campaign in France illuminates the mundane, humorous, and hard life of a Napoleonic war infantryman.
69 / FIGHTING WORDS: Terms from Military History
by Christine Ammer Our lexicographer considers some words and phrases that came into usage during the Korean War.
78 / ARMS AND MEN: From `Belgian Rattlesnakes' to BARS
by Jonathan W. Jordan The static fighting of World War I proved a catalyst for the development of an integral component of the modern mobile battlefield: the light machine gun.
82 / TACTICAL EXERCISES: Cloaked in a Cloud of Dust
by Gregory G. Bolich In the ancient world, a clever commander could use clouds of dust and dirt to gain a great victory and avoid a crushing defeat.
94 / IN REVIEW
Reviews of Stephen Budiansky's Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II and a new translation by Michael Hofmann of Ernst Ringer's Storm of Steel.
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