Wars New and Old
Reviewed by Victor Davis Hanson Appeared in National Review Online, April 19, 2004 Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, by John Lewis Gaddis (Harvard, 160 pp., $18.95)
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When I Was Young . . .
by Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers When I was young, my parents in the early 1960s told me to ignore stories about the “Jews.” Of course, out here in rural California, I never met such distant persons, but only heard about them from disgruntled farmers (who, I wager, had never met any either).
El Norte
The case against Bush’s immigration plan. by Victor Davis Hanson WSJ Opinion Journal Online President Bush’s recent proposal to grant legal status to thousands of Mexican citizens currently working in the U.S. under illegal auspices seems at first glance to be a good start–splitting the difference between open and closed borders, and between amnesty and […]
Multilateral Mantras
The fantasies of the old world meet the realities of the new. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online London protesters. Big bombs dropping in Iraq. More lectures about Guantanamo. Angst from the French and Russians. Kofi Annan miffed. Jimmy Carter back home writing novels.
Loyalty, How Quaint
The timeless importance of an old quality by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Vol. 55, Iss. 22 Even in our postmodern age 19th-century ideas like patriotism, loyalty, and treason still cause controversy. The recent news that some Arab-American and Islamic translators and chaplains at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay were either openly sympathetic to […]
Vet Bearing Gift
Two welcome rings. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third of a four-part series excerpted from the introduction of Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think, reprinted with Doubleday’s permission. Part I […]
Never Forget
Victor Hanson, KIA, 1945. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a four-part series excerpted from the introduction of Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think, reprinted with Doubleday’s permission.
The Vision Thing
Convincing Americans to stick with a crazy Middle East. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Various Syrian foreign ministers, speaking on behalf of a recognized terrorist state, recently warned Israel for fostering “instability” throughout the region by taking out the supposedly empty infrastructure of a killers’ training base on Syrian soil.
The Great Divide
Looking back on the fires of 9/11. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online So many things about September 11 have coalesced to define the attack as a singular event in American history. Three thousand Americans did not die in a fire, earthquake, or flood.
Postbellum Thoughts
Ideas from war’s aftermath. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online THE FIRST PEACEKEEPER DIVISION? The complexities of Panama, the Gulf War, Kosovo and Bosnia, Afghanistan, and the Iraqi War involved not just military challenges, but postwar reconstruction and global opinion-making as well.