Tag Archive | "War"
Victor Davis Hanson: Why It’s So Hard to Win
Is it five or ten or fifteen — years that are necessary to win wars of counterinsurgency such as Iraq? By now, Americans are well acquainted with such warnings that patience — along with political and economic reforms, not just arms — defeats guerrillas. In these messy fights, Western nations can’t, for both practical and [...]
Continue reading...Victor Davis Hanson: Why Study War?
Published Monday, August 20, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You’ll provoke not a counterargument—let alone an assent—but a blank stare: Who or what was Tet? Doing interviews about the recent hit movie 300, I encountered similar bewilderment from listeners and hosts. Not only did most of them not know who the [...]
Continue reading...Bruce Bawer: The Peace Racket
Published Monday, August 20, 2007 at 7:26 pm
If you want peace, prepare for war.†Thus counseled Roman general Flavius Vegetius Renatus over 1,600 years ago. Nine centuries before that, Sun Tzu offered essentially the same advice, and it’s to him that Vegetius’s line is attributed at the beginning of a film that I saw recently at Oslo’s Nobel Peace Center. Yet the [...]
Continue reading...Michael Young: Mostly, a divine victory for disinformation
Published Friday, July 13, 2007 at 8:34 am
Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Hezbollah-Israel war, and Michael Young (editor, Beirut Daily Star) addresses some significant myths: The first myth was that of Lebanese unanimity in the face of Israel. Soon after the war began, a spectacular bit of disinformation surfaced when the Beirut Center for Research published a poll that allegedly [...]
Continue reading...Thomas P.M. Barnett: “Do not plan to win the war, unless you plan to win the peace.”
Published Saturday, July 7, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-first Century, presents his vision for removing global threats, and the rebuilding phase that must follow.
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 9:42 am
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