Robert M. Hogge

ROBERT M. HOGGE, former president of the Association for Mormon Letters and a retired career officer in the U.S. Air Force, is an English professor at Weber State University. He is an aficionado of the literature of war and has published essays, reviews, poetry, and fiction in a variety of journals, including the Hemingway Review, Aeronautics Digest, Air University Review, Weber Studies, and BYU Studies. Recently released as temple workers, he and his wife Jan now team-teach the marriage and family relations class in their ward in Layton, Utah.

How the History Is Told | William G. Hartley, My Best for the Kingdom: History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 2

“Whatever you do, do not prettify me!” This declaration by Walt Whitman to his friend and biographer, Horace Traubel, might have also been in William Hartley’s mind as he finished writing an in-depth history of…

In the Service of Peace, in the Defense of War: War Is Eternal: The Case for Military Preparedness

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 1

The history of empires and nation-states is often a chronicle of wars, as this sprinkling of names clearly evokes: Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, William T. Sherman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, and Ho Chi Minh. The twentieth century, the bloodiest and most war-crazed in the history of the world, has alone been responsible for combat in which “not less than 62 million civilians have perished, nearly 20 million more than the 43 million military personnel killed.”

“Once More into the Breach Dear Friends . . .” | Robert C. Freeman and Dennis A. Wright, Saints at War: Korea and Vietnam

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 2

“I was not a man of war, but one of peace” (259). This epiphany came to Stephen G. Biddulph, an LDS combat Marine in Vietnam, as he described a sobering attack he had participated in…