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Volume 26 - Issue 3 - March 1983

Contents

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Columns

Articles

  • W. Germany: Looking at Gotterdammerung

  • Gary L. Guertner
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2018, pp. 4-6

  • If a war broke out today, much of the combat in open spaces would have to take place in the West German national park system.

    —Paul Bracken, On Theater Warfare (The Hudson Institute, July 1, 1979)

    In the time of the Roman historian Tacitus (circa 55-117 A.D.), the area now watched over by NATO and Warsaw Pact armies was covered by a vast forest penetrated only by a network of narrow trails. A traveler could walk from Poland to the Rhine without even glimpsing the sun. As populations grew, forests gradually gave way to pastures and arable land. By the beginning of the twentieth century German geography—and military strategy—had undergone such radical transformation that Field Marshal von Schlieffen could see the North German Plain as a corridor for maneuvering thirty-four of the kaiser's divisions to outflank the French “if the last man on the right brushed the [English] Channel with his sleeve.”

  • Of Irelands & Irishmen

  • Chalmers Hood
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2018, pp. 7-10

  • After more than a year of relative calm, Northern Ireland is once again a powder keg, its three-century-old sectarian debate threatening to explode in yet more death and violence. The British Government had hoped to return local self-rule to Northern Ireland this past fall, and a province-wide election for a seventy-eight-seat local assembly was to introduce a new era of peace and stability. This has not happened. Both Protestant and Catholic political parties declared they would not cooperate in any new government, and terrorist activity on both sides threatens to escalate the violence still further.

Columns

Excursus 1

Excursus 2

Excursus 3

Columns

Articles

  • Cuba in the Red

  • Wilson P. Dizard III
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    06 September 2018, pp. 17-20

  • [H]as not Batista jeopardized the credit of the country for 30 years? Has not the public debt increased to more than 800 million pesos? Is there not a deficit of more than 100 million? Are not the monetary reserves of the nation pledged to foreign banks in a desperate search for money? Were not 350 million pesos of the most recent loan wasted on the purchase of jet planes and things of that nature, without plan or program, for no other reason than personal whim? Can one play in this manner with the destiny of a nation ? Did anyone authorize him to undertake these insane credit ventures? Did he consult the people in any way?…It is for us more than anyone else to be concerned because we and future generations will have to pay the terrible consequences of that corrupt and unchecked policy.

    —Fidel Castro, Manifesto No. 1 to the People of Cuba, August 8, 1955

Books

Addendum

Briefly Noted

Books

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