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Category Archives: War
Decoding War Studies
The primary constraint on War Studies is the high cost of primary data. Unlike a sociologist who can survey a neighborhood, a scholar of war needs access to classified briefings, interviews with active commanders, and placement in observer missions. This … Continue reading
Decoding Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Alliance Theory read: Letters from Iwo Jima is not just a war story. It is a film about how coalitions define themselves by who they hold onto and who they let go, and how individuals within those coalitions navigate reputational … Continue reading
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Decoding Flags of our Fathers (2006)
Alliance Theory read: Flags of Our Fathers is not a war movie about combat. It is a movie about how coalitions manufacture symbols to stabilize themselves and what happens to the individuals trapped inside those symbols. The flag raising at … Continue reading
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Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945
This book by historian Alan Allport keeps it real: Underlying this way of life was an obsession with ‘PWR’ – the Prestige of the White Race. It was upon the rock of PWR – rarely spoken out loud but completely … Continue reading
Getting Away With It
Prestige media, including the New York Times in America and the ABC public broadcaster in Australia have done devastating work about the murder committed by out-of-control soldiers abroad. Despite this, most people don’t care about war crimes committed overseas against … Continue reading
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War, Dictatorship & International Relations
Please analyze the 2010 essay Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design and Clinton Rossiter’s book on Constitutional Dictatorship in the light of the new John J. Mearsheimer essay on war. Grok says: To analyze the essay “Constitutional Dictatorship: Its … Continue reading
Battle: A History Of Combat And Culture by John A. Lynn
Here are some highlights from this 2009 book: Clausewitz begins with violence, hatred, and enmity, which he believes “mainly concerns the people,” for here he labels what is clearly the most novel and pressing matter of the day. 89 The … Continue reading
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941
Here are some highlights of this fantastic 2020 book by professor Alan Allport: * Lewis wondered, though, if critics would interpret The Lord of the Rings as a political satire about contemporary Europe, rather than as the timeless mythopoeic fantasy … Continue reading
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Clausewitz: His Life and Work
Here are some highlights from this 2014 book: * The French Revolution… unleashed what Clausewitz would later call the “passions of the people.” Now the energy of the nation’s inhabitants—especially their willingness to support and sacrifice for the war effort—became … Continue reading
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Clausewitz in the Twenty-First Century
Here are some highlights from this 2007 book: * Carl von Clausewitz’s On War is the prism through which we have come to look at war. Certainly within Europe, and to an increasing extent outside as well, military commentators have … Continue reading
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