Why Study War?

Military history teaches us about honor, sacrifice, and the inevitability of conflict. by Victor Davis Hanson City Journal (Summer 2007) Try explaining to a college student that Tet was an American military victory. You’ll provoke not a counterargument — let alone an assent — but a blank stare: Who or what was Tet? Share This

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No More Anonymous, Please!

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The New Republic magazine recently ran into big trouble for publishing a first-person account of military savagery in Iraq. The author, Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, used the pseudonym “Scott Thomas” to write of the debasement of war that he claims he saw in the cauldron of Iraq. Share This

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The Burdens of General Petraeus

No simple mission. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online I. Our Rules / Their Rules Several governments have defeated Islamic insurgencies, but usually only after about ten years, and adopting policies of summary executions and carpet bombing or shelling.  Share This

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The Dangers of Education

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner Presidential aspirant Mike Gravel recently opined on the advantages of having gays in the military: “…the Spartans trained their people to be homosexuals because they were better fighters.” Share This

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Anglo-American Alliance?

“The British have basically been defeated in the South.” by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner We’ve come a long way from the 2003 British lectures about American obtrusive Ray-Bans and Kevlar losing what British soft hats and smiles had won. Share This

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Surging Politics

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Critics of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, called for by President George Bush in January, early on cited American losses and then announced the plan’s failure. Supporters, on the other hand, have seen progress from new tactics (which, many argue, should have been adopted far earlier). Share

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Post-Surge Dialectics

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The larger question that will await General Petraeus is not just the tempo of the surge per se — after all, given the efficacy of the U.S. military it can pretty much do what it wishes if it is willing to invest sufficient amounts of time, material, and manpower,

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