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
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Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea
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The Wars of the Ancient Greeks
The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day,
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