THE WAR: What the war between democratic Athens and oligarchic Sparta tells us about the war between us and the terrorists. A cautionary tale (Athens lost). By Victor Davis Hanson.
Adapted from an impromptu speech by the author at the Wednesday Morning Club at the Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles, February 1, 2006. An earlier version of this essay appeared in FrontPage, February 13, 2006. Available from Rowman and Littlefield is Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform, by Richard A. Posner. To order, call the National Book Network at 800.462.6420 or visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a classicist and an expert on the history of war. A regular contributor to National Review Online and many other national and international publications, he has written or edited sixteen books, including theNew York Times bestseller Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. His most recent book is A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2007. |
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