Has the Military Lost Middle America

VDH's Blade of Perseus // Private Papers

Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender.

Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. Statistics of those killed in action, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, reveal that white males, especially those of the rural and middle classes, were demographically “overrepresented” in offering the ultimate sacrifice to their country.

When generals, active and retired, have become controversial, usually conservative America could be counted on to stick with them.

How Iran Committed Suicide

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness How does the supposedly most fearsome regime in the violent Middle East now find itself on the verge of an utter economic and military collapse? Iran’s half-century-long deadly terrorist reputation peaked with the October 7,

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All the Dream Houses of the Left

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Clarence Thomas Body Slams Progressivism

Iran’s fractured leadership can’t be trusted and President Donald Trump’s sequencing—destroying air defenses and nuclear/military infrastructure, then negotiating while imposing a costly blockade—puts time against Tehran and enables U.S. dictation rather than an Obama-style deal,

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VDH UltraPope vs. President

Victor Davis Hanson contextualizes and comments on the ongoing quarrel between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV over US foreign policy and the Iran War.

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Victor Davis Hanson These anti-war protests reflect the Left’s Chaos Theory. It dictates that there is no need for a counter-agenda or a principled opposition. Instead, the strategy is to become so foul-mouthed, so repulsive,

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VDH UltraThe Mythologies of the Iran War. Part Four

Victor Davis Hanson Given the administration has provided clear aims, given the war is going well, and given the world is watching in quiet glee that the odious theocracy is dissembling, why the furious hysteria

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Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.

He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.

Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007, and the Bradley Prize in 2008, as well as the Edmund Burke Award (2018), William F. Buckley Prize (2015), the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award (2006), and the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002).