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Memorial Day 2016
How aggression went from an act of war to a pathology
Aggression by a state, once considered just an act of war, ultimately became viewed as a pathological act. I’ve been re-reading Sir Lawrence Freedman’s landmark work The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (Third […]
US war movie military policy: Baby Boomers grew up on films where battle was noble and Americans never died
America’s permanent war policy is a reflection of WWII movies, which offered an unrealistic vision of war’s motivations, consequences My Depression-born parents raised me in a rural idyll during the Eisenhower years. […]
One of the many ways Nazis shot themselves in the foot by persecuting Jews
Apparently Hitler seems to have forgotten that eliminating Jews would cause a crippling brain drain from Germany. There are many parallels between Hitler and Stalin. On the personal level, they both liked […]
The Battle of Berlin: 70 years ago this month
Starting on November 17, the British launched the single most intensive bombing attack on a city in World War II. Despite the lack of a world war since and the Nuremberg Trials, […]
“Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaborators
Why did the United States feel the need to admit Baltic and Eastern Europeans who at times exceeded the Nazis in brutality? Lost count of the sordid episodes in America’s past? In […]
Emphasis added: the foreign policy week in pieces
Mental Illness a Prerequisite to Run for Public Office It’s unbelievable what people would do to be in power. I know: It happens everywhere. I can’t believe that normal people in their […]
Remembering the Indianapolis: "We delivered the bomb"
As landlocked as it is, some 650 miles from the Atlantic and 1830 miles from the Pacific, Indianapolis isn’t the first place I think of when I think of battleships. Then again, […]
A Memorial Day tribute
Today is the day we honor the men and women who died in our nation’s wars. I’d like to honor three very different World War II vets today by telling you my […]
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