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The Honorable Peter MacKay, Canada’s minister of national defense

Canadian minister of defense visits Hoover and cites a long history of cooperation between the United States and Canada

Friday, February 24, 2012

Acknowledging the long history of cooperation between the United State and Canada during times of armed conflict, the Honorable Peter MacKay, Canada’s minister of national defense, cited that cooperation in a roundtable meeting with Hoover fellows on Thursday, February 23, 2012, the culmination of the minister’s daylong meetings in Silicon Valley and at Stanford University.

The roundtable, hosted by Condoleezza Rice, the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow at Hoover, included discussions of the future of NATO, the conflict in Afghanistan and its implication for future conflicts, and the use of technology in intelligence gathering, all of which relate to the importance of international security and defense cooperation, Canada’s contributions to global security, and the strength of Canada’s long-standing defense and security relationship with the United States.

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Critical War Theory

by Ann Marlowevia Policy Review
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Ann Marlowe on Between War and Peace: How America Ends Its Wars
edited by Matthew Moten

The German View of Patton

by Henrik Beringvia Policy Review
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Henrik Bering on Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes
of His Enemies by Harry Yeide

General Peter Wrangel

Searching for Peter Wrangel

by Anthony Kröner via Hoover Digest
Monday, January 23, 2012

He was the dashing, doomed general who challenged the Bolsheviks, an icon of a Russia that might have been. By Anthony Kröner.

The U.N.:So Bad It's Almost Beautiful

by Bruce Thorntonvia Hoover Digest
Monday, January 23, 2012

Powerless, aimless, corrupt: what’s not to like? By Bruce S. Thornton.

The Unfinished Business of Katyn

by Adam Bosiackivia Hoover Digest
Monday, January 23, 2012

How Russia and Poland could heal the wounds of a notorious atrocity. By Adam Bosiacki.

man flying kite

States Are Made, Not Born

by Fouad Ajamivia Hoover Digest
Monday, January 23, 2012

No amount of global clamor will create a Palestinian state. The state of Israel shows what will: hard work, good will, and timing. By Fouad Ajami.

Andrew Roberts

The Storm of War

with Andrew Robertsvia Uncommon Knowledge
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

This week on Uncommon Knowledge historian Andrew Roberts discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, his book The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. In the book, Roberts investigates what led up to the war, the historical factors responsible for Hitler’s rise to power, Hitler’s shortcomings as a military leader, Nazi Germany’s defeat, and Allied contributions to the victory. (38:15)

Kori Schake is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution

Schake discusses the end of the war in Iraq on NPR’s On Point

via On Point (NPR)
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Kori Schake, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of international security studies at the United States Military Academy, took part in a panel discussion concerning US military ceremonies in Baghdad, which formally ended the war in Iraq. The Iraq War lasted almost nine years, longer than either World War I or World War II. The panel discusses the length of the war, that it was fought by a tiny percentage of Americans, and that it was launched on a premise that proved untrue.

Fight by Flight

by Henrik Beringvia Policy Review
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Henrik Bering on The Age of Airpower by Martin van Creveld

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Military History Working Group


The Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict examines how knowledge of past military operations can influence contemporary public policy decisions concerning current conflicts.