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The Nuking Of Japan Was A Tactical And Moral Imperative

by Henry I. Millervia Forbes.com
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Charles Hill and Fouad Ajami on Uncommon Knowledge

Charles Hill and Fouad Ajami

with Charles Hill, Fouad Ajamivia Uncommon Knowledge
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

This week on Uncommon Knowledge Hoover fellows Charles Hill and Fouad Ajami discuss the Middle East: its past, present, and future.
“If you take a look at the authoritarian world of today, the Arab world looks bereft of democratic tradition, but that wasn’t always the case.”

The Great War’s Economic Front

by William Anthony Hayvia Policy Review
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

William Anthony Hay on Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War by Nicholas A. Lambert

War Paint

by Henrik Beringvia Policy Review
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Henrik Bering on The Artist and the Warrior: Military History through the Eyes of the Masters by Theodore K. Rabb

General Martin E. Dempsey

General Dempsey visits the Hoover Institution as part of its Leadership Forum

Friday, July 27, 2012

On Friday, July 27, 2012, General Martin E. Dempsey visited the Hoover Institution as a featured guest of the Leadership Forum, which seeks to engage influential voices and rising political leaders with the Institution, its scholars, and its supporters. The topics included the intersection of economics and national security, defense budgets, cyber security, and Asia.

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Peter F. Schweizer

Schweizer discusses the air force jet fuel uproar on Fox News

via Fox News
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Peter Schweizer, the William J. Casey Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a former consultant to NBC News, discusses how Congress and the government, in giving sweetheart contracts to friends and big donors, cause a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars.

Kiron K. Skinner

Skinner on the John Batchelor Show

via John Batchelor Show
Monday, July 23, 2012

Kiron K. Skinner, the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow and a member of the Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy, both at the Hoover Institution, discusses Syria and under what conditions the United States should get involved on the John Batchelor Show.

 China and Russia

Hoover's Workshop on China and Russia

Friday, July 13, 2012

The Hoover Institution Archives is proud to announce its tenth annual Workshop on China
and Russia
, which will run from July 22 to August 3. The workshop has given more than
one hundred visiting scholars the opportunity to study the Hoover Archives’ extensive collections on totalitarian regimes. This year will focus on the archives’ rich collections on China, Russia, and Iraq. We have invited fourteen experts from US and international universities and research centers, including researchers from the Ukrainian Archival Service, the Free University of Berlin, the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Harvard University, George Washington University, and the US Naval War College. The workshop thus brings invited guests together with Hoover fellows and Stanford faculty to conduct research in the Hoover Library and Archives and exchange ideas at lunchtime seminars. The Chinese KMT archives, the Archives of the Communist Party, and the recently acquired KGB archives and Ba’ath Party archives are among the archival sources that researchers will examine. Additionally, presentations by Robert Service and Amir Weiner will take place during the workshop.

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Ajami discusses US intervention in Syrian on CNN

via Amanpour (CNN International)
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses why the US should intervene in Syria.

Ernest Schelling receives the Distinguished Service Medal, May 21, 1923; Ignace

Ernest Schelling’s Papers and Memorabilia Come to Hoover

Monday, June 18, 2012

Known affectionately by his youngest fans as “Uncle Ernest,” Ernest Schelling was an American pianist and composer, the founder and for sixteen years the conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Young People’s concerts until his untimely death in 1939. His musical papers, which are held by the University of Maryland’s International Piano Archives, provide detailed documentation of the course of his artistic career, but relatively little has been known or available about Ernest Schelling’s life outside music. The new Hoover collection sheds light on an important segment of his biography: his distinguished career as an intelligence officer and diplomat during and immediately after World War I, and his lifetime friendship with Ignace Jan Paderewski, the charismatic Polish piano virtuoso and statesman.

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