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 victory through the destruction of his forces on the field of battle. Continue reading “An Indirect Approach?”
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 is with us today and helps to frame almost all of our struggles since 9/11. Continue reading “Gone But Not Forgotten”
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. Continue reading “Middle East Tragedies”
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. Continue reading “Back to the Falklands”
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. Continue reading “Postbellum Thoughts”
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. Continue reading “Time Is on Our Side”
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. Continue reading “Anatomy of the Three-Week War”
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. Continue reading “Our Western Mob”
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. Continue reading “The Ironies of War”
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. Continue reading “Yesterday’s News”