Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
Rules of a different type of war Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam John A. Nagl INTRODUCTION There are two powerful ideas which I am constantly trying to place before my students. The first...
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A CASE STUDY IN EMPIRE AND NARRATIVE John D. Weaver and the Exoneration of the 25th Infantry Editor’s Introduction At a family gathering in 1967, a journeyman writer named John D. Weaver pointed to... ...
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Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946–1959
by Jon Cowans Introduction Ours is a highly narrativized culture: from childhood, you and I have watched (and heard, and read) more stories than we can count. From this slush pile of consumed narratives,... ...
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THE INNER LIFE OF WESTERNS : Interview with Jane Tompkins Editor’s Introduction For a decade or so, I have been looking for a book that could help explain to my students why the Western... ...
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An Introduction to Mesoamerica
INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL E. SMITH Editor’s Introduction Today, many poor U.S. urban neighborhoods are described as “food deserts” where residents are not even able to purchase fresh meats and vegetables. A majority of the... ...
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We all tend to see what we want to see -- in ourselves, in our friends, in our culture, and in other cultures. In his dissertation, Jens-Uwe Guettel takes a penetrating look at how Germany viewed ...
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Dracula as a Foretelling of WWI
With the 1897 publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the English were exposed to a terrifying Gothic novel that expressed the fears of the age: Questions of invasion, identity, and war were entangled in a dramatic story about vampires feeding on women and ...
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The unintended consequences of war—both good and bad—are fascinating to my students. My cadets always engage with lesson plans on the technology that came out of World War II, for example, or the packs of wild dogs in Vietnam which are the descendants of U.S. canine corps from the late 1960’s, or the marine ...
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The current generation of food writers has taken this topic and turned it into an entire field of study. Talented writers have discovered a treasure of fascinating people and powerful themes in the products so familiar to ...
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