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War: In History’s Shadow
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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
A coal miner in Donetsk, Ukraine
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Four Things We Get Wrong About World War I
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Policy Seminar with Michael Auslin

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
George Shultz Conference Room, Herbert Hoover Memorial Building

Michael Auslin, the Williams-Griffis Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Hoover, came to the policy workshop to discuss his book project "Before Empire: American Expansion and Great Power Competition in the Pacific Ocean In the 19th Century." 

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'Hello Girls' Faced Uphill Battle, Speaker Tells Reading Audience

featuring Elizabeth Cobbsvia Reading Eagle
Monday, March 12, 2018

[Subscription Required] Women who served in World War I were denied benefits and recognition accorded to male veterans.

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Area 45: National Security And Trade - China, North Korea, And The United States

interview with Michael R. Auslinvia Area 45
Friday, March 9, 2018

How is President Trump changing the dynamics of the United States’ relationship with China, North Korea, and Asia, and making the world safer?

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The Classicist: The Price Of Peace: A Conversation With Victor Davis Hanson And Peter Robinson

interview with Victor Davis Hanson, Peter M. Robinsonvia The Classicist
Friday, March 9, 2018
The Hoover Institution hosted a discussion about the Price of Peace, which examines the use of deterrence of enemy aggression in the past, and the efforts to sustain it in the current era of rogue nations and nuclear proliferation.
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A New Classic

featuring Victor Davis Hansonvia Claremont Institute
Thursday, February 8, 2018

In the London library in St. James’s Square, the books on World War II are somewhat archaically shelved under the classification “European War (II).” This was because when the Great War broke out in 1914, the librarian gave it the designation “European War.” 

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Syria: A Long, Long History Of War

by Barry Straussvia Military History in the News
Monday, March 5, 2018

The war in Syria just seems to go on and on, with civilians in the line of fire as often as not. Currently an estimated 400,000 civilians are trapped in Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb and rebel enclave, currently under bombardment by government forces. Fighting since February 18 has killed over 600 people, including many children.

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Author Event - The Hello Girls By Elizabeth Cobbs

featuring Elizabeth Cobbsvia National Archives
Thursday, March 22, 2018

On Thursday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m., the National Archives will co-host Elizabeth Cobbs author of The Hello Girls in collaboration with the National World War I Museum and Memorial. This free program will be held at the National World War I Museum and Memorial, 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, Missouri.

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Post-Modern Propaganda: The Gatekeepers Are Gone

by Ralph Petersvia Military History in the News
Friday, February 23, 2018

No plague in history spread with the speed of internet disinformation. We live in an age of hyper-charged propaganda, an onslaught of lies more pervasive than any that came before. Over millennia, propaganda changed minds. Today, it changes governments and subverts institutions. And this flood has burst the dams that, for centuries, kept the foulest waters in check.

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Michael Auslin: Storm Clouds Over China: Part 4 Of 4: North Korea Is A Tool Of China

interview with Michael R. Auslinvia The John Batchelor Show
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin discusses whether North Korea is being used by China.

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Committed To The Long Haul

by Max Bootvia Strategika
Monday, February 26, 2018

The situation in Afghanistan is frustrating and even enraging. Despite the death of more than 2,400 U.S. military personnel and the expenditure of billions, even trillions, of dollars over the past 16 years, the Taliban are as much of a threat as ever. They are well-funded—the United Nations estimates that opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan set a new record in 2017—and they have cross-border support from Pakistan, which has no intention of cutting them off despite the Trump administration’s cut-off of security assistance.

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