Warriors are not always soldiers.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
One of the great trends of the modern world has been a blind faith in the overwhelming power of technology and material wealth. Continue reading “What Wins Battles?”
Author: victorhanson
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture.
Why the Muslims Misjudged Us
They hate us because their cultures is backwards and corrupt.
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ Opinion Journal Online
Since September 11, we have heard mostly slander and lies about the West from radical Islamic fundamentalists in their defense of the terrorists. Continue reading “Why the Muslims Misjudged Us”
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
People seeking handouts use the war as an excuse
by Victor Davis Hanson
WSJ Opinion Journal Online
In times of national crisis we all look to government. It is the one entity that can marshal sufficient forces to protect us from foreign enemies and provide for our domestic safety. Continue reading “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme”
Ferocious Warmakers: How Democracies Win Wars
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Claremont Institute
The historian Thucydides believed that democracies were the most adept governments at war making. Continue reading “Ferocious Warmakers: How Democracies Win Wars”
At War – What Are We Made Of?
The guts to resist evil.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Magazine
The United States finally entered the First World War because of the nation’s lingering outrage over a few hundred floating bodies from the sunken ocean liner Lusitania, which was torpedoed during Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare. Continue reading “At War – What Are We Made Of?”
The Meaning of Tet
1968 Tet Offensive, Vietnam War
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Heritage
A historian argues that in Vietnam America’s cause was just, its arms effective, and its efforts undermined by critics back home — and that this is how things must work in a free society. Continue reading “The Meaning of Tet”
Five-Star Peacock
A Review of MacArthur’s War
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review
MacArthur’s War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero, by Stanley Weintraub (Free Press, 375 pp., $27.50) Continue reading “Five-Star Peacock”
Democracy Without Farmers
by Victor Davis Hanson
The Wilson Quarterly
The family farm in America has all but vanished, and with it we are losing centuries of social and civic wisdom imparted by the agrarian life. Continue reading “Democracy Without Farmers”
Tall Tales from The Family Farm
Farming not the serene, simple life that most outsiders think
by Victor Davis Hanson
Heritage Foundation
“He sees not that sea of trouble, of labour, and expense which have been lavished on this farm. He forgets the fortitude, and the regrets.”
-J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America Continue reading “Tall Tales from The Family Farm”
Sherman’s War
by Victor Davis Hanson
American Heritage
The General’s March through Georgia is usually remembered as a ruthless campaign of indiscriminate terror, waged against helpless civilians rather than southern soldiers. But Victor Davis Hanson argues that it was brillant, effective, and, above all, humble. Continue reading “Sherman’s War”