Axis powers miscalculated after early advantages in World War II, Stanford scholar says
Axis powers miscalculated after early advantages in World War II, Stanford scholar says By 1942, the Axis powers seemed invincible. But the course of the war soon changed in ways that offer lessons for the U.S. and its allies in today’s world, said Victor Davis Hanson, a Hoover Institution senior fellow. By Clifton B. […]
Uncommon Knowledge Part 2: The Second World Wars with Victor Davis Hanson
This video was originally published by the Hoover Institution. Click here to learn more about this episode. Could the Axis powers have won? What are the counterfactuals for World War II? Find out in part two of this episode as Victor Davis Hanson joins Peter Robinson to discuss his latest book, The Second World Wars. Victor Davis […]
Interview with VDH on Area 45: Remembering Pearl Harbor
Seventy-six years ago, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America went to war. Listen to the latest episode of the podcast, Area 45, as Victor Davis Hanson discusses the 76th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the lessons learned from that conflict’s successes and failures and how they apply today. Listen to the podcast episode […]
Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger: VDH’s WWII
Listen to Victor Davis Hanson chat about his new book with Jay Nordlinger on his podcast, Q & A. Victor Davis Hanson’s new book is “The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.” Jay asks him a slew of questions, including: What caused the war? Was Hitler dumb to declare […]
Pearl Harbor and the Legacy of Carl Vinson
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Read the original article here. His monumental contributions to American security are largely unknown to Americans today. Seventy-six years ago on Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese fleet surprise-attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the home port of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Japanese carrier planes killed 2,403 Americans. They sunk or […]
Nation V. Tribe
by Victor Davis Hanson Read the original article in Defining Ideas here. Tribalism is one of history’s great destroyers. Once racial, religious, ethnic, or clan ties trump all considerations of merit and loyalty to the larger commonwealth, then factionalism leads to violence, violence to chaos, and chaos to the end of the state itself. […]
Cruelty and Sexual Harassment
by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Read the original article here. Civilization does not cure men of malice, especially when there are no repercussions for bad behavior. Observers look for some sort of common denominator that would make sense of the daily news blasts of nonconsensual sexual escapades of media, political, and Hollywood celebrities. No […]
C-SPAN: Military Historian Victor Davis Hanson Recounts The Key Battles Of World War II
Victor Davis Hanson joins National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry to recount the key battles of World War II. Airing Sunday, Dec 03 12:15am EST on C-SPAN2 Watch the full interview here
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From an Angry Reader: So, let me get this this right; you have the freedom to express your First Amendment Rights (your opinion article), the neo-nazi can express their first amendment rights (as they did this weekend in Charlottesville), but “multimillionaire young players, mostly in their 20s” cannot. If this country still had the draft, […]
Who Watches the Watchmen?
by Victor Davis Hanson Originally published in the National Review. Read the original article here. History shows that special counsels almost inevitably overstep their mandates. Former FBI director Robert Mueller was supposed to run a narrow investigation into accusations of collusion between the Donald Trump campaign and the Russian government. But so far, Mueller’s work […]
Trump’s Fate
by Victor Davis Hanson Originally published at the National Review. Read the original article here. Plenty of people in ‘flyover’ country like not only Trump’s message — and actions — but also Trump, the loudmouth messenger. The political verdict seems out on Trump’s current political future. His supporters have won four special congressional elections. Yet, […]
Uncommon Knowledge Part I: The Second World Wars with Victor Davis Hanson
How were the Axis powers able to instigate the most lethal conflict in human history? Find out in part one of this episode as Victor Davis Hanson, joins Peter Robinson on Uncommon Knowledge to discuss his latest book, The Second World Wars. Victor Davis Hanson explains how World War II initially began in 1939 as a […]
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11/27/2017 From an Angry Reader: Rarely have I read such infuriating nonsense as intellectual outlier Victor Davis Hanson spouts in his thoroughly delusional commentary about Trump. I know he’s been a blind Trumpeter since the con artist’s campaign began, and he remains steadfast in defending the indefensible. His pack of fraudulent claims, gross exaggerations, […]
China’s New Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
by Victor Davis Hanson// National Review China is following the same path to regional hegemony that Japan did in the 1930s. A few weeks ago, Chinese president Xi Jinping offered a Soviet-style five-year plan for China’s progress at the Communist Party congress in Beijing. Despite his talk of global cooperation, the themes were […]
A Thanksgiving Toast To The Old Breed
by Victor Davis Hanson// Defining Idea The late World War II combat veteran and memoirist E. B. Sledge enshrined his generation of fellow Marines as “The Old Breed” in his gripping account of the hellish battle of Okinawa. Now, most of those who fought in World War II are either dead or in their […]
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From an Angry Reader: Dear Professor Hanson, I read your article on Stalingrad and I wanted to respond. The German 6th army in Stalingrad had Slovakian and Croatian units in the city. On the flanks of the 6th army was the Italian 8th army which played a huge role in Russia and was […]
Why Do These Wars Never End?
By Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Weaker enemies, by design, do not threaten stronger powers existentially; ‘proportionality’ means stalemate. From the Punic Wars (264–146 b.c.) and the Hundred Years War (1337–1453) to the Arab–Israeli wars (1947–) and the so-called War on Terror (2001–), some wars never seem to end. The dilemma […]
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From an Angry Reader: Victor Victor Victor… Come on lad … With your education I really thought that you would know that “nuclear” is pronounced nu-cle-ar, NOT nuc-u-ler. That is the way “dub-ya” pronounced it and he could get away with it because he is an idiot. You are not! Please fix that […]
America’s Indispensable Friends
By Victor Davis Hanson// National Review As long as the U.S. remains good to weaker but humane states located in dangerous neighborhoods, it will remain great as well. The world equates American military power with the maintenance of the postwar global order of free commerce, communications, and travel. Sometimes American power leads […]