AT THE onset of this century, two Boer states, the South African Republic, and the Orange Free State, with a combined force of about 87,000 men, were locked in a guerilla war against a British Empire military organization of nearly 450,000 men and 520,000 horses. The Boers' commando tactics enabled them to hold out from October 1899 to May 1902. They were inevitably defeated, but only after an ...

O NE OF THE most curious characteristics of the United States military establishment since World War II has been its tendency to become slavishly addicted to fads. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, fascination with nuclear weapons to the exclusion of almost everything else led the Army to such unhappy experiments as the " pentomic divi­ sion " and the " Davy Crockett. " 1 The Air Forc...

Military intelligence is underutilized in the study of civil war violence. Declassified records are hard to acquire and difficult to explore with the standard econometrics toolbox. I investigate a contemporary government database of civilians targeted during the Vietnam War. The data are detailed, with up to 45 attributes recorded for 73,712 individual civilian suspects. I employ an unsupervise...

The Call of Duty franchise is well-known for its setting in historical warfare and frequently discussed under the themes realism or treatment history. Whilst this helpful to address inconsistencies often-resulting lack critical perspective on general, it perhaps more accurate refer as a site memory. not interested an retelling war, rather, evoke cultural memories usually produced by (popular) m...

1 The idea of transmitting some traumatic knowledge of the past persists in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle as the idea of transmitting reminiscences of a past ruled by “the pleasure principle” but replaced by the present which is subjected to “the reality principle” (Freud, 1920). The loss of a world governed by immediate gratification is felt as particularly traumatic in the context of ...

The aim of this study was to review the existing literature on the effect of war on female and male fertility. A MEDLINE search for studies that included participants defined as infertile because they were unsuccessful in achieving a pregnancy after a year and studies that assessed the effect of war on semen parameters and menstrual dysfunction were performed. Twenty articles were included in t...

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. To the Editor: Although some studies have found decreased cog-nitive performance in repatriated prisoners of vs^ar (POWS)/'^ other studies have not found such deficits.^-* Many of the studies that have found an intellectual decrement in POWs have meth-odological limitations, including failure to control for concurrent depression, posttraumati...