Let Slip the Dogs of War

Editorial

by David Tschanz

CH36 has, like CH37 been delayed for a number of reasons, many of which are an off-shoot of the dreadful events and days following September 11th. CH37 should be in your mailboxes within a week. All I can do at this point is offer sincere apologies. All subscriptions have been extended by one issue in partial recompense.

David Saks makes his first appearance in our pages with an analysis of the Jameson's Raid. Little more, according to some, than a naked grab for land by Cecil Rhodes, the consummate imperialist, it had much to do with setting of the powder keg that led to the Boer War.

A book review by Jim Bloom is always insightful and thought provoking, his return to these pages proves he hasn't lost his touch. There were more to the chivalric orders than Templars and Hospitallers -- the Leper Knights among the most unique..

Airpower and Douhet are the subject of Richard Estes commentary. We end the issue with Mark Twain's delightfully dry and scathing commentary on the goals of Jameson and Rhodes --don't let the initial impression -- that he sided with the British blind you to his real point.


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