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Essays | Winter 1980
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"The Evolution of U.S. Army Tactical Doctrine, 1946-76."
United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. 66027.58 pp. $1 .OO Author: Major Robert A. Doughty, U.S. Army
The tactical doctrine of the U.S. Army changed several times during the period 1946-76 in response to various developments-improved conven-tional weapons, nuclear "hardware," guerrilla wars-but Army leaders and Pentagon policymakers consistently r...

Essays | Winter 1980
Heaven on Earth: The Plan of St. Gall

the strong hand and visionary policies of Char- lemagne (742-814). Uniformity, rationality, planning-these were the watchwords of the day, reflected in the concept of St. Gall. Dating from the early 9th century, the Plan itself (a 30-by- 44-inch piece of calfskin now preserved in the library of a Swiss monastery) is a masterpiece of design, one of the great original documents of Western civilization. For hundreds of years, it held religious and secular architecture under its spell. More impor- tant...

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Surviving the '80s: Decalogy Comes of Age

No subject has so captured the imag- To be sure, they are full of sage ination of Americans as the decade of predictions and "words of learned the 1980s. With George Orwell's fate- length," like Goldsmith's parson. But ful 1984 just around the corner, when one probes for the scientific everyone anxiously wants to know underpinnings, one finds a common precisely what lies ahead. Coaxed by assumption running through all the prominent foundations and think predictions-namely, that one can...

Essays | Autumn 1979
Taiwan

piling great rocks up in the sea. The tale is not all that fanciful. Some 60 million years ago, a massive earthquake rocked the East Asian shore, submerging the entire coastline. A second earthquake heaved a narrow chunk of sunken crust up through the waters. As the elements over millennia eroded the jagged landscape, the island spread out into its present shape.
"The earthquake and typhoon have played an important part in the formation of the [Taiwanese] character," W. G. God- dard,...

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A Loss of Nerve

Diane Divolcy
As the 1970s draw to a close, everyone has something to say about "the schools ." Congressmen variously fret about why Johnny can't read, or why he must be bused 10 miles to school to achieve "racial balance," or why he is subjected to tests clearly biased in favor of those who can write "Standard English."
From the Washington bureaucracies and the tax-exempt education lobbies come studies documenting the vandalism, drug abuse, and violence in the schools,...

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Sex And Human Nature

, the new study of the biological elements in social behavior, touches on human behavior, it causes a stir. Yet the "nature versus nurture" controversy goes back to Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species (1859) and his theory of natural selection. The man who wrote Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975 is Harvard entomologist Edward 0.Wilson. To his surprise, he became the target of academic critics, notably Marxists who argued that sociobiology, in effect, preached "ge-...

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