Peace in the Middle East will not be won on the West Bank. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Since the time of the Greeks a hallmark of Western military practice has been the tendency to seek out an enemy, and then through superior discipline, shock, and technology, to smash him — thus obtaining […]
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Making war and peace in the new post-Soviet world by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online It has been well over a decade since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Yet many, still caught up in past institutions and protocols of that bygone age, forget the degree to which the collapse of the Soviet Union
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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
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If only we’d had a roadmap to peace in 1982. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online April, 1982 Secretary of State Alexander Haig today issued the State Department’s long-awaited “Roadmap” intended to end the dispute over the contested islands. Share This
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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
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by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online In between morbid reports on the Peterson murders, the media — bored and a little chagrined with the rapidity of the American victory — sought to find a salacious story in the looting. Share This
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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
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From the graveyard of Kabul to the quagmire of Iraq to the looting of Baghdad. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The jubilation of liberating millions from fascism and removing the world’s most odious dictator apparently lasted about 12 hours. 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
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Trying to take it all in. by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online We are not quite seeing the beginning of the end of our efforts, but rather, to paraphrase Churchill, the end of the beginning. Share This