Word: warriorism
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JACKSON: The Cold Warrior...
...individual, Sloan's hero is a quietly brash, intellectually aloof fighter compulsively plotting the means to exploit the corruption and stupidity of the "midgets" he has been deployed to defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity...
Seldom has the compulsion to go to war been better portrayed than in this novel by Yugoslavia's most celebrated warrior-ideologue. Milovan Djilas wrote Under the Colors while serving a prison sentence for criticizing Tito's regime. But the book is not concerned with contemporary events. It re-creates the clash between Serbian and Moslem in Djilas' native Montenegro in the late 19th century. Djilas lost much of his own family in this incessant warfare; he grew up on legends of heroism and endurance...
...brilliant and self-confident innocent who undertook a personal assizement of the importance of the Arab Revolt of 1916 merely as a chance to escape from General Murray's stifling Cairo staff and indulge in colorful heroics. Lawrence is gradually seduced by the life-style of an Arab warrior, and by the possibility of playing an epic role in the formation of a new democracy-a task which would offer him visionary fulfillment. A bastard, without any inherited identity but possessed of an irrepressible free will, Lawrence welcomes the opportunity to create a myth out of his own clay...
Some 500 years ago the great Japanese warrior-poet Ota Dōkan built a castle on the marshy fringes of what is today Tokyo Bay. A bustling little town sprang up, and Ota wrote...