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Military life

Ivan the terrible soldier

by Andrew Cockburn,

It's hard to fight well on a diet of dried fish and de-icing fluid

by Lewis H. Lapham,

by David Boroff,

Sparta goes suburban

by Hayes B. Jacobs,

A non-psychologist, with an honorable discharge, reports on the quaint speech patterns among sex-starved, unrelaxed island dwellers.

by John Fischer,

Some comments and rejoinders

by Barton M. Biggs,

by George McMillan,

The First Marine Division on Pavuvu

by Eric Larrabee,

Warriors need not apply