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The Death of Conquest

Anna Simons | Mar 01, 2003
We don't "do" conquest anymore--but the new anti-conquest norm has had several unforeseen consequences. Some are proving very worrisome.

The Great War: Mystery or Error?

Michael Howard | Jun 01, 2001
While interesting, recent attempts to make sense of World War I ultimately fail to account for the true cause of both the war and its protraction: German militarism.

The American Way of Victory

James Kurth | Jun 01, 2000
The twentieth century witnessed, and its course was largely defined by, a trilogy of American wartime victories. But in the aftermath of the first two, the peace was lost. After the Cold War, will it happen again?

Europe on the Brink: Democratic Values and the Single Currency

Michael Portillo | Mar 01, 1998
The EU is not democratic. Neither the EC, nor the Council of Ministers, nor the European Central Bank is democratically accountable; and they cannot be made so, because Europe is not a nation.

Charles Beard, Properly Understood

Andrew J. Bacevich | Mar 01, 1994
It is time to readmit Charles Beard's critique into the canon of permissible opinion.
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1945 and All That

John Lukacs | Sep 01, 2001
Well-trained historians need not be specialists, as P.M.H. Bell's illuminating new volume confirms.

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