If America is to win (or, far better, avoid) future wars, its war professionals need to look more honestly at that phenomenon in all of its dimensions.
It is often said that the pre-war professional army died at the first battle of Ypres.
By the end of the war, 32 of the 35 pre-war professionals saw action in the British forces.
While "major war" and "professional foreign correspondents" are open to definition, the Mexican War, begun in 1846 — seven years before the Crimean War — was the first foreign war covered extensively by journalists.
They had brought him in during the war, the professional civil servant from an orthodox department, a man to handle paper and integrate the brilliance of his staff with the cumbersome machine of bureaucracy.
He added: "For me as a rugby league person, it's so pleasing to see rugby league getting back in France in the area where it started again after the war [the professional code was outlawed by the Vichy government as 'a corrupter of French youth'].
There had been gaming tournaments and the like beforehand, but by the early millennium, Starcraft and its expansion Brood War had professional teams playing in televised leagues and tournaments viewed by millions – at what was perhaps the game's peak, the 2005 Pro League Final filled a 120,000-seater stadium in Busan.
It was not until the years following the Second World War that professional wrestling enjoyed its first golden age.
After World War II, professional leagues were founded in many Latin American nations, most prominently Venezuela (1946) and the Dominican Republic (1955).
The details of the experience are described under the following headings: a tug of war between professional goals; disjointed collaboration in primary care; primary care perspectives gain ground; and merging of perspectives.
