Category Europe
Re-Post: “Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War” By Max Hastings
Re-Post: “Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War” By Max Hastings www.fortunascorner.com Max Hastings is one of the greatest living writers/historians on war in the 20th Century and his latest masterpiece, “Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War,” is a thought provoking examination of the diplomatic maneuverings on the eve of World War I and its […]
The Lesson Of The Great War
The Lesson of the Great War The Atlantic · by Eliot A. Cohen · July 9, 2018 Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, near Chateau-Thierry, FranceAlden Bentley / Reuters There are the wars we remember, and the wars that seem to drift away. Korea is one such, but at least there is a monument in Washington to the startled World […]
The Next Great War: By Graham Allison
Excerpts: Opinion | The Next Great War The Washington Post · by Graham Allison · November 9, 2018 Fallen leaves are seen on small crosses planted in the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey in London. Nov. 7, 2018. (Toby Melville/Reuters) Graham Allison is the former director of Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the […]
The Caspian Sea Treaty
https://www.iiss.org/?_cldee=azJ1eWdAYW9sLmNvbQ%3d%3d&recipientid=contact-64df4cad6980de11b23000237dde6e5c-304b2fbbed2d479f8d9b856d26e0f1fa&esid=e5b82328-36e4-e811-80d8-005056be3f90 November 2018 DOWNLOAD PDF The Caspian Sea Treaty The ‘Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea’, signed by the five littoral states on 12 August, is an important step for regional security and economic development. If implemented in good faith, the treaty could facilitate important energy projects, but the Caspian Sea region […]
Resuming U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Is Crucial
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Resuming U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Is Crucial By Robert R. Monroe November 6, 2018 America has two grave nuclear weapons vulnerabilities which are little known and less understood by the nation’s national security leadership. First, we don’t know that the nuclear weapons in our arsenal will work; and second, our underground nuclear […]
Creatures Made For Haunting: Book Review Of “The Vampire: A New History”
Creatures Made For Haunting: Book Review Of “The Vampire: A New History” http://www.fortunascorner.comm Daniel Akst has a book review in this morning’s (Oct. 31, 2018/Halloween) Wall Street Journal (WSJ), of “The Vampire: A New History,” by Nick Groom, and just published by Yale University Press. Mr. Groom is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter; and, is […]
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