Pressing ahead is our only choice. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The images are jarring, the hypocrisies appalling, the rhetoric repulsive. Only in the Arab Middle East — and the Islamic world in general — are suicide-murderers operating and indeed canonized, even blessed with cash bonuses. Share This
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. Share This
It was more that we were good rather than they were bad. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In the aftermath of the incredible three-and-a-half week victory we should not post facto make the mistake of assuming that Operation Iraqi Freedom was necessarily an easy task. Share This
What we have witnessed is unprecedented in military history. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Marines just rolled by the battlefield of Cunaxa, where in 401 B.C. 10,000 Greek mercenaries suffered one wounded in their collision with the imperial troops of Artaxerxes. Share This