No. 2612: A Prelude to War
Issues of the 1916 American Review of Reviews reveal a strange view of war. The last Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War had not brought horror home to most Americans. The Civil War certainly had, but it was now a recollection of a previous generation. Most people remembered its heroics far more clearly than its agony and blood. By now, WW-I had settled into a trench war of attrition in Europe; but it'd be another year before we joined that fight. At the moment, the magazine shows as much interest in our Mexican border scrap with Pancho Villa as the war...
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