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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
A coal miner in Donetsk, Ukraine
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Four Things We Get Wrong About World War I
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Analysis and Commentary

The Dangerous Dog Days of Summer

by Victor Davis Hansonvia National Review Online
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Wars launched in past Augusts show the importance of military readiness...

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Analysis and Commentary

The Guns of August, 1990

by Fouad Ajamivia Wall Street Journal
Monday, August 23, 2010

The last 20 years would have been very different had American forces taken that open road to Baghdad the first time around...

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True Barbarians

by Henrik Beringvia Policy Review
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Henrik Bering on Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity
in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood

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Regaining a Realistic Foreign Policy

by Colin Dueckvia Policy Review
Sunday, August 1, 2010

What Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan teach

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Interviews

Forum with Michael Krasney

with Victor Davis Hansonvia NPR
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Historian Victor Davis Hanson joins us in the studio to discuss his new book, "The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern"...

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The Russia Option

by Paul H. Taivia Hoover Digest
Friday, July 2, 2010

Moscow once offered Chiang Kai-shek a chance to smash his enemies. Why did he refuse? By Paul H. Tai.

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Quantum Leaps to Hiroshima

by Bertrand M. Patenaudevia Hoover Digest
Friday, July 2, 2010

Glimpses into the world of the celebrated thinkers who brought the atomic age to life. By Bertrand M. Patenaude.

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Analysis and Commentary

(Even a Few) Words Matter

by Victor Davis Hansonvia Real Clear Politics
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Sometimes deterrence against aggression is lost with just a few unfortunate words or a relatively minor gesture...

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Interviews

Putting War in Context

with Victor Davis Hansonvia WAMU 88.5
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Victor Davis Hanson is a classics scholar, a military historian, and an outspoken critic of President Obama's approach to the Afghan and Iraq wars. He talks to us about war -- 'an entirely human enterprise...'

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How to Defeat the Drug Lords at Last

by Lieutenant Colonel Don Chipmanvia Hoover Digest
Friday, July 2, 2010

Colombia has made remarkable progress against narcotraffickers. So could Mexico. By Donald C. Chipman.

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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.