The Marshall Mission
( The Marshall Mission) Next Sunday, NBC will premiere the new Magnum P.I, which is the same show that CBS had canceled last year. But that "Magnum," can trace its lineage back to Hawaii Five -O, which is an extension of NCIS Los Angelas , which goes back to NCIS classic, which was itself a spin-off of the legal drama, JAG. JAG first premiered on NBC in 1994 starring David James Elliot and Tracy Needham, with a couple of cameos from Oliver North. Full circle ? The Age-Old Question. Who lost China ? The originally, it had been the Nationalist Chinese, led by Generissimo Chaing Kai-Chek, and the Communists, led by Mao Zedong. While Japan was the common enemy, both factions cooperated. When the war was over, however, a Chinese civil war loomed. In December, 1945, President Truman dispatched former Army Chief of Staff, General George Marshall to Peking to speak on behalf of the Nationalists, trying to get both sides to an accord that would prevent an outbreak of hostilities....