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War: In History’s Shadow
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by Niall Fergusonvia Financial Times
A Century On, the First World War is Still Being Played Out
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by Timothy Garton Ashvia Guardian (UK)
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A History of Nuclear Choices
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by Josef Joffevia Strategika
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Four Things We Get Wrong About World War I
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The Gates Maneuver

by Kori Schakevia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The defense secretary’s great accomplishment? Not battles won or budgets protected, but making the White House see sense on Afghanistan. By Kori N. Schake.

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Why We Spend What We Spend

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Pentagon’s budget is no ordinary line item. There are many reasons not to cut it. By Victor Davis Hanson.

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Armed with the Odds

by Thomas H. Henriksenvia Hoover Digest
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Proposed cuts in defense spending might not harm our national security—but only if the Pentagon plays its cards right. By Thomas H. Henriksen.

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Gregory is on the John Batchelor Show

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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Paul Gregory, a Hoover Institution research fellow and professor in the department of economics at the University of Houston, Texas, discusses the method and madness of Stalin and other dictators with John Batchelor.

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Ajami discusses the Middle East on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America

via Bill Bennett's Morning In America
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and how the United States should respond.

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Ajami discusses what happens to Libya after Gadhafi on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360

via Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN)
Monday, February 28, 2011

Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses who will fill the void if and when Gadhafi falls with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

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Bruce Thornton—The Wages of Appeasement

with Bruce Thorntonvia Uncommon Knowledge
Monday, February 28, 2011

Bruce Thornton is a professor of classics and humanities at California State University, Fresno, and a national fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book is The Wages of Appeasement: Ancient Athens, Munich and Obama’s America.

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Hoover Institution acquires the papers of Xu Daulin

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Xu Daulin (1906–73) was a distinguished legal scholar who made substantial contributions to the Constitutional Law of the Republic of China. The new acquisition includes Xu’s unpublished manuscript entitled Chinese Local Administration under the National Government and his personal correspondence with the scholarly community in the United States.

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Abbas M. Milani

Milani discusses Iran's 1979 revolution and Egypt’s current revolution on NPR

via Morning Edition (NPR)
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Abbas Milani, a research fellow and codirector of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, discusses how today’s events in Egypt compare to the 1979 revolution in Iran.

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Ajami discusses Egypt's hazy future and what it means for the United States on NPR

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses the anti-Mubarak protesters' victory in Egypt. Ajami notes that Egypt's leadership remains in flux—and that the political future of one of America's strongest allies in the Middle East may have important implications for the United States.

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