Military

When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide

Victor Davis Hanson // New York Times What is “grand strategy” as opposed to simple strategy? The term is mostly an academic one. It denotes encompassing all the resources that a state can focus — military, economic, political and cultural — to further its own interests in a global landscape. “On Grand Strategy,” by John Lewis …

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Civilization’s ‘Darkest Hour’ Hits the Silver Screen

  by Victor Davis Hanson//National Review A masterful new film shows how Churchill saved the world from Nazi Germany in May of 1940.   The new film Darkest Hour offers the diplomatic side to the recent action movie Dunkirk.   The story unfolds with the drama of British prime minister Winston Churchill’s assuming power during …

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The Bigmouth Tradition of American Leadership

by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review   To everything, there is a season.   America has always enjoyed two antithetical traditions in its political and military heroes.   The preferred style is the reticent, sober, and competent executive planner as president or general, from Herbert Hoover to Gerald Ford to Jimmy Carter.   George …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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The Year That Changed History

by Victor Davis Hanson Defining Ideas Sometimes, just a few months can change the course of civilization. That’s what happened in 1942 when a series of decisive events changed the trajectory of World War II. Before that turning point, Germany seemed destined for victory. In 1939 and 1940, Hitler’s army had won a series of …

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