Issues of the 1916
American Review of Reviews reveal
a strange view of war. The last Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War had not brought
horror home to most Americans. The Civil War certainly had, but it was now a recollection
of a previous generation. Most people remembered its heroics far more clearly than its
agony and blood.
By now, WW-I had settled into a trench war of attrition in Europe; but it'd be another
year before we joined that fight. At the moment, the magazine shows as much interest
in our Mexican border scrap with Pancho Villa as the war in Europe.