Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Sunday, March 6, 2022

Invite Russia to Join NATO

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The problem with U.S. foreign policy is that we have no collective memory. The failures in Iraq and especially Afghanistan were evidence of ...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Armistice Day

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“On November 11, 1918, Armistice Day, the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front in France suffered more than thirty-five hundr...
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Sunday, September 15, 2019

BAND OF BROTHERS

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For me, the theme was leadership seen through the experiences of 2LT (eventually Major) Dick Winters. The corollaries included the importan...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

General Henri Guisan and Swiss Neutrality

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Switzerland was surrounded and divided. Germany had annexed Austria. Italy was Germany’s ally. France had fallen. Denmark, Norway, Yugoslav...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

CODES AND COINS

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Coins were invented about 600 BCE, about 3000 years after money (as we understand it) was invented. Within three generations, by 500 BCE, c...
Saturday, January 5, 2019

Book Review: The Second World Wars by Victor Davis Hanson

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This book was a pleasant surprise and a disappointment. The premise offers an original context for understanding the events of the 1930s an...
Monday, April 9, 2018

Soldiers of Peace

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The military teaches the way of peace, said Paul K. Chappell, because they praise in public and reprimand in private. I heard Paul K. Chapp...
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Thursday, March 1, 2018

2LT Frances Y. Slanger: American Nightingale

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After landing on Utah Beach on D+4, she was killed during an artillery barrage outside Elsenborn, Belgium, on October 21, 1944. Bob Welch d...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Counter-Insurgency is a Wrong Turn

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While I accept the thesis, I question its underlying assumptions. I take the wider view that war is crime, and therefore crime is war; and ...