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A Century On, the First World War is Still Being Played Out
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A History of Nuclear Choices
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by Josef Joffevia Strategika
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A Brief Guide To Strategy And Sanctions

by Thomas Donnellyvia Strategika
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Recently, the United States’ closest European allies, Britain, France, and Germany, proposed “fresh” economic sanctions on Iran as an effort to force Tehran to comply with both the letter and the spirit of the 2015 “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” meant to delay the Islamic Republic’s development of nuclear weapons. 

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Do Economic Sanctions Work?

by Angelo M. Codevillavia Strategika
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Economic strictures are acts of war. Throughout history, the starvation and disease they have caused have killed more people than all other instruments of war. But like all other instruments, their effectiveness depends on the circumstances in which they are used and on the policies of which they are part.

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Sanctions: The Record And The Rewards

by Josef Joffevia Strategika
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Why are sanctions so popular? Because “there is nothing else between words and military action to bring pressure upon a government,” explains Jeremy Greenstock, Britain’s long-term ambassador at the UN. It is bloodless—warfare on the cheap. Nonlethal means are the main attraction for democracies loath to go to war in remote places against states that do not pose an existential threat.

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Failed Wartime Leaders Have A Short Shelf Life In Democracies

by Barry Straussvia Military History in the News
Monday, March 26, 2018

“I have often before now been convinced that democracy is incapable of empire.” So one ancient Athenian politician complained when his countrymen rejected his advice during the Peloponnesian War. “Democracy is acknowledged folly,” said another Athenian politician, after his career took a nosedive. Sour grapes, sure, but not unusual. Today democracy still has plenty of critics.

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The Great Victor Davis Hanson Takes On World War II

featuring Victor Davis Hansonvia American Thinker
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

I first came to know Victor Davis Hanson reading The Western Way of War (1989), which explained the reason for the lethality and effectiveness of Western armies throughout history.

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Chemical Weapons In The Shadow Of Magna Carta

by Barry Straussvia Military History in the News
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Located in rural southwest England, Salisbury has long been famous for its medieval cathedral and its proximity to Stonehenge. It even houses a rare copy of that precious document of western constitutional government, Magna Carta.

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Security by the Book - Max Boot's New Book, The Road Not Taken

interview with Max Boot, Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

The Hoover Institution hosted "Security by the Book: Max Boot's new book, 'The Road Not Taken,'" on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 from 5:00pm - 7:00pm EST.

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Luke Harding Picks Five Books That Expose The Secret World Of Spies

quoting Timothy Garton Ashvia The Guardian
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Fom insights into the Russian spy agency Sergei Skripal worked for, to a candid account from Stalin’s assassinations director – these books take you inside the closed world of espionage.
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Silk Roads and Bad Maps: China and the US in the Indo-Pacific with Gary Roughead

by Admiral Gary Rougheadvia Hoover Institution
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Admiral Gary Roughead (USN, Ret.) the Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow at the Hoover Institution gave a talk titled Silk Roads and Bad Maps: China and the US in the Indo-Pacific.

 

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Crossing the Rubicon at the 39th Parallel?

by Barry Straussvia Military History in the News
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

A historian of ancient Rome is skeptical of the comparisons between Julius Caesar and Donald Trump. After all, slamming a leader we don’t like as “a new Caesar” is one of America’s oldest traditions. It stretches from George III to Lincoln to Obama and now Trump.

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