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Cyberspectives: Adam Segal On China, Cybersecurity, And Global Trade

interview with Adam Segalvia Cyberspectives
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

In this episode, Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations discusses US-China relations in the context of cybersecurity, the digital supply chain, and trade.

In the News

Revisiting A Time When War Was The Answer

quoting Timothy Garton Ashvia Antelope Valley Press
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

On a bluff above the sand and a half-mile from the ocean’s edge at low tide, which was the condition when the first Allied soldiers left their landing craft, a round circle of concrete 5 feet in diameter provides a collar for a hole in the ground. On the morning of June 6, 1944, the hole was Widerstandsnest (nest of resistance) 62, a German machine gun emplacement.

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Area 45: What’s Next For North Korea With Thomas Henriksen

interview with Thomas H. Henriksenvia Matters of Policy & Politics
Friday, May 31, 2019

Will Kim Jong-un ever give up his nuclear ambitions or allow economic reforms into North Korea?

Interviews

Victor Davis Hanson: The Second World Wars

interview with Victor Davis Hansonvia American Conservative University
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses his book The Second World Wars.

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The Libertarian: Trump, Trade, And China

interview with Richard A. Epsteinvia The Libertarian
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Are tariffs a necessary evil when it comes to stopping Chinese predation?

The Classicist with Victor Davis Hanson:
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The Classicist: Understanding Chinese Strategy

interview with Victor Davis Hansonvia The Classicist
Thursday, May 16, 2019

A deep analysis of how Beijing is asserting itself on the world stage.

Featured

Our Modern ‘Satyricon’

by Victor Davis Hansonvia American Greatness
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Sometime around A.D. 60, in the age of Emperor Nero, a Roman court insider named Gaius Petronius wrote a satirical Latin novel, “The Satyricon,” about moral corruption in Imperial Rome. The novel’s general landscape was Rome’s transition from an agrarian republic to a globalized multicultural superpower.

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Swinging With Freedom: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty And The Power Of Jazz

via The Hoover Centennial
Friday, May 10, 2019

Western music, and jazz in particular, became a popular form of resistance against the Communist regimes, especially in Eastern Europe.

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Area 45: Japan’s New Emperor With Michael Auslin

interview with Michael R. Auslinvia Matters of Policy & Politics
Thursday, May 9, 2019

Japan’s new emperor and empress and the continuation of a centuries-old tradition.

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The Big Show In Bololand

featuring Bertrand M. Patenaude, Hoover Institutionvia C-SPAN
Monday, March 11, 2019

Author Bertrand Patenaude shared the story of a US famine relief mission to Bolshevik Russia in 1921 that saved millions of lives in his book, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921.

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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.