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Ripples of Battle

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by Victor Davis Hanson


  Cleombrotus, King of Sparta

  Cleon

  Clinton, Bill

  Clouds (Aristophanes)

  Cobra offensive

  Cold Harbor, battle of

  Cole (ship)

  collective guilt

  Commodus (play)

  Concord, battle of

  Confederate Relief and Historical Association

  Confucianism

  Congo

  Congress, U.S.

  Constantinople, fall of

  Constitution, U.S.; Fourteenth Amendment to

  Corinna

  Corinthian War

  Coronea, battle of

  Coronet, Operation

  Corsair fighter planes

  Cortés, Hernán

  Crécy, battle of

  Crito (Plato)

  Cronkite, Walter

  Cuba, U.S. blockade of

  Custer, Gen. George Armstrong

  Cyprus, 206; siege of

  Damophilos

  Davis, Jefferson

  Dawes, Adjutant

  Delium, battle of; Alcibiades at; booty captured at; desecration of dead after; Euripides’ play about; Hippocrates at; slaughter of Thespians at; Socrates at; tactics at

  Democratic Party

  Demosthenes

  Diakritos

  Díaz del Castillo, Bernal

  Diodorus

  Dionysius I

  Donelson, Fort

  Dover, battle of

  Dresden, bombing of

  Duke, Gen. Basil W.

  Early, Jubal

  Echecrates

  Egypt; ancient

  Electra (Euripides)

  Electra (Sophocles)

  Empedocles

  Empicurus

  Enterprise (carrier)

  Epaminondas

  Essex (carrier)

  Euchoridas

  Euclides

  Eupolis

  Euripides

  Euthyphro (Plato)

  Ewing, Thomas

  Fair God, The (Wallace)

  Feifer, George

  Floyd, Gen. John Buchanan

  Forrest, Gen. Nathan Bedford

  Founding Fathers

  Franklin, battle of

  Franklin (carrier)

  Frederick the Great

  Frogs (Aristophanes)

  Garfield, James A.

  Gaugamela, battle of

  Geiger, Gen.

  Germany, Nazi. See Nazis

  Gettysburg, battle of

  Gibney, Frank

  Gibson, Gen. Randall Lee

  Gilmer, Gen. J. F.

  Giuliani, Rudolph

  Gladiator (film)

  Gone With the Wind (Mitchell); film version of

  Goodbye, Darkness (Manchester)

  Goodbye to All That (Graves)

  Gordon, Gen. John B.

  Gorgias

  Gorgias (Plato)

  Grant, Ulysses S.; Lee’s surrender to; and Lost Opportunity myth; presidency of; Sherman and; at Shiloh; Wallace and

  Great Depression

  Greece, ancient; art and architecture of; Persian invasion of; philosophy in (see specific philosophers); protocols of warfare of; theater in; see also Delium and other specific battles; residents of specific city-states

  Grenada, U.S. invasion of

  Guadalcanal, battle of

  Gulf War

  Gylippus

  Halleck, Gen. Henry W.

  Hampton, Gen. Wade

  Hancock (carrier)

  Hannaher, Thomas

  Hannibal

  Hanson, Victor

  Hara, Col.

  Hardee, Gen. William J.

  Harper’s Weekly

  Harris, Isham G.

  Harrison, Benjamin

  Hastings, battle of

  Hayes, Gen.

  Hecuba (Euripides)

  Hellcat fighter planes

  Henry, Fort

  Heracleidae (Euripides)

  Heraclitus

  Herodotus

  Hesiod

  Heston, Charlton

  Hindman, Gen.

  Hippias

  Hippias Major and Minor (Plato)

  Hippocrates (Athenian general)

  Hippocrates (founder of Western medicine)

  Hippodamus

  Hippolytus (Euripides)

  Hiroshima, atomic bombing of

  Histories (Herodotus)

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hittites

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell

  Homer

  Honshu, invasion of

  Hood, Gen. John Bell

  Hooker, Gen. Joseph

  hoplites

  Hornet (carrier)

  Howard, Gen. Oliver Otis

  Howells, William Dean

  Hubbard, Frederick C.

  Hurlbut, Gen.

  Hussein, Saddam

  Iceburg, Operation

  Idaho (battleship)

  Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S.

  Incas

  Inchon, battle of

  Indefatigable (carrier)

  Indianapolis (cruiser)

  Indian-Pakistani conflict

  Indian wars

  Ingersoll, Col. Robert G.

  Inoguchi, Rikihei

  Ion (Plato)

  Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides)

  Iran

  Iraq; U.S. war on

  Isa, Junkyo

  Islam; fundamentalist

  Isocrates

  Israel

  Issus, battle of

  Italy, fascist

  Ittmann, Louis

  Iwo Jima, battle of

  Jackson, Gen. Thomas “Stonewall”

  Japan; atrocities committed by; culture of; failure of Mongol invasion of; firebombing of; homeland defense plan of; suicide tactics of (see also kamikazes); see also Okinawa, battle of

  Japanese-Americans, internment of

  Jesus

  Jews: ancient; Ku Klux Klan targeting of

  Johnson, Andrew

  Johnston, Gen. Albert Sidney

  Johnston, Georgia Way

  Johnston, Joseph

  Johnston, William Preston

  Jordan

  Josephus

  Kadesh, battle of

  kamikazes

  Kashmir

  Kenesaw Mountain, battle of

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

  Kerama Islands, battle of

  ketsu-go (homeland defense)

  Khe Sanh, battle of

  kikusui (“floating chrysanthemums”) campaign

  Kilpatrick, Judson

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  Knights (Aristophanes)

  Koironos

  Korean War

  Kosovo

  Kublai Khan

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kursk, battle of

  Kyushu, invasion of

  Laches

  Laches (Plato)

  Lake Trasimene, battle of

  Lamachus

  Lancaster bombers

  Laws (Plato)

  Lee, Gen. Robert E.

  LeMay, Gen. Curtis

  Leningrad, siege of

  Leonidas, King of Sparta

  Lepanto, battle of

  Leslie’s magazine

  Leuctra, battle of

  Lexington, battle of

  Leyte Gulf, battle of

  Libya

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Little Bighorn, battle of

  Locrians

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Longstreet, Gen. James

  Lost Cause, The (Pollard)

  Lost Opportunity, myth of

  Louisiana State Military Academy

  Louisville (cruiser)

  Lowell, James Russell

  Lysander

  Lysis (Plato)

  Lysistrata (Aristophanes)

  MacArthur, Gen. Douglas

  Macedonians

  Machiavelli, Niccolò

  Madigan, Peter

  Malta, siege of

  M
anchester, William

  Mantinea, battle of

  Marathon, battle of

  March to the Sea

  Marianas campaign

  Marines, U.S.; at Okinawa

  Marmaduke, Col.

  Masada, siege of

  McClellan, Gen. George

  McClernand, Gen. John

  McPherson, Col.

  Meade, Gen. George G.

  Medea (Euripides)

  Medes

  Melians

  Melissus

  Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (Sassoon)

  Memorabilia (Xenophon)

  Mexican War

  Mississippi (battleship)

  Missouri (battleship)

  Mithradates

  Mitscher, Adm.

  Mongols

  Monocacy, battle of

  Monte Cassino, battle of

  Moralia (Plutarch)

  Mormons

  Morocco

  Morton, Capt. John W.

  Motya, siege of

  Mozambique

  Munford, Col.

  Murfreesboro, battle of

  My Lai massacre

  Myrondies

  Nagasaki, atomic bombing of

  Naito, Hatsuho

  Nakajima, Tadashi

  Nanking, rape of

  Napoleon, Emperor of France

  Nashville, surrender of

  Nationalist Chinese

  Native Americans

  NATO

  Navarro, Ramon

  Nazis

  Nelson, Gen.

  Nemea, battle of

  Neoplatonists

  New Mexico (battleship)

  New York Tribune

  Nicias; Peace of

  Nimitz, Adm. Chester W.

  Nonaka, Goro

  Normandy invasion

  Oakland (cruiser)

  Oeconomicus (Xenophon)

  Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)

  Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

  Oenophyta, battle of

  Okabe, Heiichi

  Okha (“exploding cherry blossom”) flying bombs

  Okinawa, battle of; civilian suicides at; desecration of dead at; kamikaze attacks at; military lessons of; proximity to Japanese homeland of; Pyle’s death at

  Olympic, Operation

  Onishi, Adm. Takijiro

  Order of Pale Faces

  Order of the White Camellia

  Ota, Soichi

  Ottoman Empire

  Pagondas

  Pakistan; India’s conflict with

  Palestinians

  Panama, U.S. invasion of

  Panzers

  Parmenides

  Patton, Gen. George S.

  Pausanias

  Pea Ridge, battle of

  Pearl Harbor, attack on

  Peleliu, battle of

  Peloponnesian War; Alcibiades and duration of; desecration of dead in; influence of Socrates on philosophy during; outbreak of; see also Delium and other specific battles

  Pentagon, attack on. See September 11 terrorist attacks

  Pericles

  Perryville, battle of

  Persians; Alcibiades and; at Thermopylae

  Phaedo (Plato)

  Phaedon

  Phaedrus (Plato)

  Pharnabazus

  Phidias

  Philiades

  Philip II, King of Macedon

  Philippines: Japanese defense of; liberation of

  Philoctetes (Sophocles)

  Philteros

  Phythagoreans

  Pillow, Fort

  Pillow, Gen. Gideon J.

  Pindar

  Plataea, battle of

  Plato

  Plutarch

  Poland, Nazi invasion of

  Polk, Gen. Leonidas

  Pollard, Edward

  Polygnotus

  Polytimidas

  Pope, Gen. John

  Potidaea, siege of

  Powell, John Wesley

  Prentiss, Gen. Benjamin

  Prescott, William

  Preston, Col. William

  Prince of India, The (Wallace)

  Protagoras

  Protagoras (Plato)

  Pyle, Ernie

  Pyrilampes

  Pythagoras

  Pythias

  Quo Vadis (film)

  Rawlins, Gen. John A.

  Reconstruction

  Republic (Plato)

  Republican Party; radical branch of

  Revolutionary War

  Romans, ancient

  Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rosecrans, Gen. William S.

  Rowley, Capt.

  Russians, slaughter of Chechnyans by

  Russo-Japanese War

  Rwanda

  Sahagun, Bishop

  St. Lo (carrier)

  Saipan, battle of

  Sakura-kai (“Cherry Society”)

  Salamis, battle of

  Samichos

  samurai code

  San Jacinto (carrier)

  Sassoon, Siegfried

  Saudi Arabia

  Saugenes

  Savannah Republican

  Sears, Roebuck & Company

  Seishin Kyoiku (“spiritual mobilization”)

  Senate, U.S.

  Senko, Michael

  seppuku (ritual disembowelment)

  September 11 terrorist attacks; aftereffects of

  Seven Against Thebes (Aeschylus)

  Seventh Letter (Plato)

  Shepherd, Gen. Lemuel

  Sherer, Robert J.

  Sherman, Gen. William Tecumseh; concept of war of; and Lost Opportunity myth; march on Atlanta of; at Shiloh; Wallace and

  Sherman, John

  Shiloh, battle of; Forrest at; “friendly fire” at; myth of Lost Opportunity of; Sherman at; strategic location of; Wallace at

  Shiloh: Bloody April (Sword)

  Shiloh National Military Park Commission

  Sho (“Victor”) plan

  Sicily, Athenian invasion of

  Sicinnus

  Simmias

  Simonides

  Sledge, E. B.

  Smith, Gen. Charles F.

  Smith, Gen. William Sooy

  Socrates; Aristophanes’ portrayal of; at Delium

  Somalia

  Somme, battle of the

  Sophists

  Sophocles

  Southern Historical Society Papers

  Soviet Union

  Spanish-American War

  Spann, Johnny

  Spartacus (film)

  Spartans; Alcibiades and; at Thermopylae; Thespians and

  Stagg, Amos Alonzo

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stalingrad, siege of

  Stanley, Henry Morton

  Stanton, Edwin M.

  Stone, Col. Charles P.

  Streight, Col. Abel

  Sturgis, Gen. Samuel D.

  Suateles

  Suchow, battle of

  Sudan

  Sulla

  Sumter, Fort

  Sunday, Billy

  Suppliants, The (Euripides)

  Sword, Wiley

  Symposium (Plato)

  Symposium (Xenophon)

  Syria

  Taliban

  Tanagra, battle of

  Tannenberg, battle of

  Tarawa, battle of

  Taylor, John

  Taylor, Richard

  Taylor, Zachary

  Ten Commandments, The (film)

  Tennessee (battleship)

  Tennozan (Feifer)

  Terpsion

  Tet Offensive

  Thebans; booty captured by; desecration of dead by; during Persian Wars; Euripides on; at Plataea; tactics of; at Thermopylae; Thespians and

  Themistocles

  Thermopylae, battle of

  Thespiae, annihilation of

  Thomas, Gen. George

  Thompson’s Station, battle of

  Thucydides; on desecrat
ion of dead; disgrace and exile of; on Sicily campaign; on slaughter of Thespians

  Tighman, Gen.

  Tigress (gunboat)

  Time magazine

  Tissaphernes

  Tojo, Gen. Hideki

  Tokyo: firebombing of; Patriots’ Shrine in

  Transylvania University

  Trebia, battle of

  Trojan War

  Trojan Women, The (Euripides)

  Turner, Adm.

  Twain, Mark

  Twigger, Bill

  Tyrtaeus

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe)

  United Nations

  Ushijima, Gen. Mitsuru

  Vance, Gen. Zebulon

  Vandegrift, Gen. Alexander

  Van Dorn, Gen.

  Vegetius

  Verdun, battle of

  Vicksburg, siege of

  Victorio (Apache renegade)

  Vietnam War

  V-1 rockets

  Walker, John

  Wallace, Gen. Lewis; collapse of military career of; delay in arrival at Shiloh of; and Lost Opportunity myth; vendetta against Grant of; writing career of

  Wallace, Gen. W.H.L.

  War Department, U.S.

  War of 1812

  Washington, George

  Wasps (Aristophanes)

  West Point

  West Virginia (battleship)

  Wheeler, Gen. Joseph

  Whitaker, Richard

  White, Lt. Patrick

  Wilderness, battle of the

  Wiley, Capt.

  Wilson, Gen. James Harrison

  Withers, Gen.

  With the Old Breed (Sledge)

  Wolseley, Gen. Viscount

  World Trade Center, attack on. See September 11 terrorist attacks

  World War I

  World War II; European theater; suicide tactics in(see also kamikazes); see also Okinawa and other specific battles

  Wyler, William

  Xenophon

  Xerxes

  Yahara, Col. Hiromichi

  Yamaguchi, Teruo

  Yamamoto, Adm. Isoroku

  Yamato (battleship)

  Yandell, D. W.

  Yorktown, battle of

  Zeno

  Zero fighter planes

  ALSO BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

  Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece

  The Western Way of War:

  Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

  Hoplites: The Ancient Greek Battle Experience (editor)

  The Other Greeks: The Agrarian Roots

  of Western Civilization

  Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea

  Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the

  Recovery of Greek Wisdom (with John Heath)

  The Wars of the Ancient Greeks

  The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day,

  How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny

  The Land Was Everything: Letters from an American Farmer

  Bonfire of the Humanities (with John Heath and Bruce Thornton)

  Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles

  in the Rise of Western Power

  An Autumn of War

  Mexifornia: On a State of Becoming

 

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