Delium: The Battle Only One Man Wanted–Part I

by Victor Davis Hanson

Military History Quarterly

[Delium will appear this week in a five part series: 1)The Battle, 2) The Aftermath, 3) Armor and Ranks, 4) Innovation and the Battlefield, 5) Coalition Warfare] Continue reading “Delium: The Battle Only One Man Wanted–Part I”

The Truth about Torture

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., recently proposed an amendment to a defense appropriations bill in an attempt to plug loopholes in already existing anti-torture laws. The amendment, which President Bush opposes, is a good idea for America — but not necessarily for the reasons cited by most critics of the administration. Continue reading “The Truth about Torture”

A Moral War

The project in Iraq can succeed, and leave its critics scrambling.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

Almost everything that is now written about Iraq rings not quite right: It was a “blunder”; there should have been far more troops there; the country must be trisected; we must abide by a timetable and leave regardless of events on the ground; Iraq will soon devolve into either an Islamic republic or another dictatorship; the U.S. military is enervated and nearly ruined; and so on. Continue reading “A Moral War”

Terrorists and Tyrants

Rethinking why we are at war in the Middle East

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

As American casualties mount in Iraq, politicians at home now fight over who said what and when about weapons of mass destruction and the need for going to war. Continue reading “Terrorists and Tyrants”

The Crying Game

so near in Iraq, so far at home.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

“The president misled us.” “Still no WMDs.” “If I had only known then what I do now…” Continue reading “The Crying Game”

A Time for Real Indians

This Thanksgiving shake off false notions of the nobel savage.

by Bruce S. Thornton

Private Papers

Thanksgiving Day is perhaps our favorite time to indulge our collective idealizations of the past. Continue reading “A Time for Real Indians”

Riots in France

What the U.S. needs to learn from poor immigration policy.

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

If the controlled French economy grew at a rate comparable to America’s, then most of the rioting youths of the Paris suburbs would probably have otherwise been too tired to participate after coming home from work. Continue reading “Riots in France”

War & Reconstruction

For Bush’s critics, even hindsight is cloudy.

by Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online

This is the mantra of the extreme Left: “Bush lied, thousands died.” A softer version from politicians now often follows: “If I knew then what I know now, I would never have supported the war.” Continue reading “War & Reconstruction”

Heaven on Earth

by Victor Davis Hanson

Tribune Media Services

In Paris last week, the smoke of riot and fire arose from a West Bank-style intifada of angry Muslim youths. The ports of Spain were shut down by a fishermen’s blockade. Hostage ships were freed only after the irate blockaders won more government fuel subsidies. Continue reading “Heaven on Earth”

The Iraqi War and All with VDH

An interview by Frontpage Magazine

Private Papers

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, director emeritus of the classics program at California State University, Fresno, and currently a classicist and military historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of The Western Way of WarThe Wars of the Ancient GreeksThe Soul of BattleCarnage and Culture, and Ripples of Battle. His new book is A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. Continue reading “The Iraqi War and All with VDH”