{"id":12928,"date":"2021-03-05T08:28:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12928"},"modified":"2021-03-05T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:50:12","slug":"war-and-peace-from-thucydides-to-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/war-and-peace-from-thucydides-to-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"War and Peace: from Thucydides to Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>The Classicist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"806\" data-attachment-id=\"10391\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/classicist_vdh_itunes-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?fit=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,2048\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"classicist_vdh_itunes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?fit=806%2C806&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?resize=806%2C806&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?resize=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?resize=250%2C250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/classicist_vdh_itunes.jpg?w=1612&amp;ssl=1 1612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.com\/podcast\/the-classicist\/war-and-peace-from-thucydides-to-joe-biden\/\">Listen to &#8220;War and Peace&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson explores how military history can illuminate current foreign policy challenges, delineates which nations pose the greatest threats to the United States, explores the role that human rights should play in international affairs, looks at the changing shape of America\u2019s alliances, and provides a reading list for future commanders-in-chief.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Classicist Listen to &#8220;War and Peace&#8221; Victor Davis Hanson explores how military history can illuminate current foreign policy challenges, delineates which nations pose the greatest threats to the United States, explores the role that human rights should play in international affairs, looks at the changing shape of America\u2019s alliances, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3mw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10812,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/uncommon-knowledge-part-2-the-second-world-wars-with-victor-davis-hanson\/","url_meta":{"origin":12928,"position":0},"title":"Uncommon Knowledge Part 2: The Second World Wars with Victor Davis Hanson","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This video was originally published by the Hoover Institution. 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