Second World War (WWII)

Ignoring America’s Greatest Victory?

May 8 is the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Allies, but America is hardly commemorating its greatest victory. Why?

Mutual Disarmament Treaties Are a Losing Game

The idea of mutual-disarmament has been discredited by history and should not be embraced in today’s geopolitical environment

Ukraine, Just War & Success

Current U.S. policy of pressure only on Ukraine makes just peace unlikely

No, Churchill Did Not Instigate WWII Against Hitler

Despite historian Darryl Cooper’s recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Hitler and the Nazis were unquestionably the real culprits behind the Second World War

Niall Ferguson Exaggerates America’s Weakness and China’s Strength

Niall Ferguson’s view that America may soon topple like the Soviet Union massively underestimates American resiliency, especially compared to China

The Death of Deterrence

If the West allows the credible threat of deterrence to die with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, only more violence will ensue in the long run

Germany’s 75 Years of Providential Good Choices

Germany chose malevolence, learned, then chose life.

Conflicts May be Long, But Are Not “Forever Wars” 

The phrase ‘forever war’ conveys the ahistorical and exaggerated premise that, if a war is long, it is therefore unwinnable and not worth fighting. 

NATO’s Future is Churchillian, Not Wilsonian

The future of NATO must be defined by Churchillian realism and not Wilsonian idealism