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empire: u.s. way of war

3/8/2023

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Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power
Giselle Donnelly
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The origins of the United States’ distinct approach to war and military power are found in the colonial experience. To imagine our future, Giselle Donnelly argues that we must plumb our past. Long before 1776 and 1619, English men and women crossed the Atlantic not to isolate themselves from the Old World but to empower themselves to defend their faith, countrymen, and political liberty while creating new wealth. They inhabited a world of empires and understood that to survive in it—and to hold together the diverse peoples of Britain—they must play the global game.

In Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power, Giselle Donnelly traces the development of these enduring habits through a series of vignettes that reveal the interaction of a maturing strategic consensus and the contingencies inevitable in international politics and offers a unique perspective for understanding the current debate about America’s role in the world.
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MARK MOYAR FINISHES VIETNAM

3/3/2023

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Refighting The Vietnam War
by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness
Triumph Regained shows that America’s war in Vietnam could have been won earlier at far less cost, and in fact almost was, even belatedly by 1968.
VOL I:  TRIUMPH FORSAKEN
AMERICAN GREATNESS, REFIGHTING VIETNAM
Victor Davis Hanson: Vietnam Revisited: Conversation With Mark Moyar
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NUCLEAR MANAGEMENT

3/3/2023

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Europe’s Nuclear Discontent
Euromissiles is a timely and relevant account of the value of diplomacy and of arms control negotiation during the last decade of the Cold War.
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In the despotic impulses of Israel's judiciary, we see echoes of Rousseau's Lawgiver and Plato's Philosopher King.
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The Last Great President
William Inboden gives Ronald Reagan’s successful foreign policy the detailed history it deserves.
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On the Need to Touch Grass
What happens when an entire generation loses itself in a world of abstractions?
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BRITISH EMPIRE ABROAD:  ARCHITECTURE AS SELF CONFIDENCE

2/22/2023

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SOUTH ASIA:  GROUND ZERO FOR NUCLEAR WAR

2/21/2023

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Not Accountable revives the constitutional objections to “collective bargaining” by public servants. Will Americans listen this time?
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Edward Chancellor has given us a colorful and provocative review of the history, theory, and the profound effects of interest rates.
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HOW TO SAVE THE WEST

2/21/2023

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The Sultan's Fleet: Seafarers of the Ottoman Empire
https://www.meforum.org/63867/the-sultan-fleet-seafarers-of-the-ottoman-empire
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GEORGE KENNAN:  CONTAINMENT, THE BIOGRAPHY

2/9/2023

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AMAZON BOOK SOLZHENITSYN
A new book explores the complexities of one of the architects of American foreign policy.
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THE FIRST CHRISTIAN TYRANT & THE RESCUE OF ENGLAND

2/7/2023

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It May Be Different Than You Think
citing Philip Zelikow via Texas National Security ReviewI recently participated in a historical simulation run by the historian Philip Zelikow. Zelikow brilliantly applies micro-history methods of key historical events to highlight, ex ante, the difficult choices faced by policymakers. 
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HAYAK'S BIOGRAPHY

1/11/2023

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The Life of an Unrepentant Old Whig
Hayek's deep curiosity about the world was matched by considerable courage and intellectual integrity.
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LAW AND LIBERTY REVIEW
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THE POWER OF THE  IMAGE

1/8/2023

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In a debased modern society, Thomas Pfau finds hope in the transformative beauty of the world.
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AMAZON, MINDING THE MODERN
TITLES, THOMAS PFAU AMAZON
The portrayal of widespread poverty and economic inequality is a distortion of statistics by economists inside and outside the government.
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OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS FOR 2022

12/16/2022

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LAW & LIBERTY REVIEW 'HUBRIS & NEMEISIS'
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James Lacey capably explains Roman military strategy, but fails to grasp the motivations of Imperial Rome.
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HOMESCHOOLING, REFORM OF EDUCATION:  AGENCY, BY IVAN ROE
Getting China Wrong
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An Economist’s Outlook: Essays by John H. Makin from a Transformative Era
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LETTERS FROM A PRIVATE SPY, LIFE OF JOHN LE CARRE
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THE OSWALDS

11/28/2022

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WWI:  THE 100 YEARS WAR

10/24/2022

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AEI ON HEALTH CARE & A CITY CALLED BERLIN

9/18/2022

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​US Health Policy and Market Reforms: An Introduction
James C. Capretta
AEI Press
Berlin’s Dark, Enduring Heart
A new book offers an engaging, if ultimately unfulfilling, historical portrait of the city.
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WHY HILTON KRAMER & ANGELO CODEVILLA MATTER

9/13/2022

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BRIAN ALLEN
A Serious Critic for Unserious Times
Hilton Kramer rejected political correctness to champion aesthetics and standards in art
AMAZON BOOK PAGE, ANGELO CODEVILLA
A Neo-Aristotelian Basis for Liberty and Virtue
by douglas b. rasmussen
Neo-Aristotelian insights may play a crucial role in preserving the liberal order.
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Embracing Seriousness About War and Peace
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A symposium on the late Angelo Codevilla's final book, America's Rise and Fall among Nations
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The Progressive Revolution in American Foreign Policy
The Progressives rejected the purpose of government as understood by the American founders.
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What Is Our Peace?
Codevilla counseled Americans to think coherently about their interests and the means to secure peace.
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Recovering a Constrained Foreign Policy
We need elites who operate with an eye to the public welfare, not progressive ideology.
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Against the Elites
The achievements of the American empire have not inspired confidence in Progress.
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U.S., CHINA:
U.S. Trails China in Key Tech Areas, New Report Warns

By Lauren C. Williams & Patrick Tucker, Defense One: ““In our judgment, China leads the United States in 5G, commercial drones, offensive hypersonic weapons, and lithium-battery production.”"
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PUTIN'S WAR IN SYRIA

9/9/2022

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victor davis hansen:  on the great greek war

8/15/2022

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Barry Strauss On The John Batchelor Show (1/8)
interview with Barry Strauss via The John Batchelor Show(Part 1) Hoover Institution fellow Barry Strauss discusses the war that made the Roman Empire. Listen to: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, and Part 8.
The Marital Foundations of the Republic
A new book argues that America's Founders viewed domestic life as the equal partner to public life.
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Strategic Outpost’s Seventh Annual Summer Vacation Reading List, by David Barno and Nora Bensahel
Counting Liberalisms
The liberal/postliberal dualism is too simplistic, requiring that we see disagreement where there may in fact be none.
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VISIBLE HAND, ADAM SMITH TODAY

7/18/2022

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God and the Ghosts of Communism
by thomas albert howard
Nowhere was the Marxist-Leninist dogma on religion pursued more ruthlessly than in Albania.
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LAW AND LIBERTY
AIER BOOK REVIEW
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BOOKS: WHY THE LONG 20TH CENTURY STILL MATTERS TODAY

7/9/2022

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THE RENEWAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  THE NEW CRITERION

6/28/2022

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Kropotkin’s dead goose  by Gary Saul MorsonOn the limitations of anarchist thought.
Treasons of the heart
“A classic moral fable” by Steve Morris. On rereading Hard Times by Charles Dickens.  
“Abstraction & uptopia,” by Hilton Kramer
“The short happy life of Robert Louis Stevenson,” by Joseph Epstein. On Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and legacy.
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville, by Olivier Zunz (Princeton):
“Soviet fate, Russian hope,” by Jacob Howland (March 2018). On Nadezhda Mandelstam’s literary achievements.
Death fugues: the poems of Paul Celan
by John SimonOn Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner.
How and why do societies fall apart, without any external compulsion to do so? These are questions that, having spent a great deal of my life in Britain, preoccupy me. It might be denied, of course, that societies ever .
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Highways to utopia
Seeing Turner whole by David Yezzi ​
The “I” of the storm by David FromkinOn The World Crisis by Winston Churchill. ​
The voice of sanity  by Stanislaw Baranczak
A review of Open Letters: Selected Writings by Václav Havel. ​
The beatification of Walter Benjamin
by Richard Vine
On Walter Benjamin’s life and philosophy.
The West that wasn’t  by Andrew RobertsOn a world without Western civilization. ​
Henry James & the Great War  by Stephen Miller
On the author’s final years in England.
Kropotkin’s dead goose  by Gary Saul MorsonOn the limitations of anarchist thought.
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WAR, STATECRAFT & BOXING

4/22/2022

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CITY JOURNAL
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SOUTH WEST ASIAN EXPERT TACKLES CHINESE PRIMACY & ASIA'S NEW GEOPOLITICS

6/14/2021

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PAKISTAN'S POLITICO
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How the New Continuing Resolution Will Frustrate the Pentagon
By Joe Gould, Megan Eckstein & Jen Judson, Defense News: "Exceptions can be made for “anomalies.” But for now, the continuing resolution means a Pentagon priority — a $5.5 billion boost for the development and testing of cutting-edge technologies that could deter China — is on hold."

How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
By Catherine Putz, The Diplomat: “The oceans are a central zone for commercial competition, scientific collaboration, and naval rivalry. Sea-based trade is not just an element of globalization; it’s the core of it.” ​
The Nuclear Balance Is Changing—And Not for the Better
By Peter Huessy, The National Interest: “As the nuclear posture review begins, the United States faces serious dilemmas."

China Military Watch
By Reginald Lin & Eli Huang, The Strategist (ASPI): “The careful selection by Chinese leader Xi Jinping of military officers for rapid promotion to key positions in the People’s Liberation Army may signal both a wish to consolidate the military behind him and a concern about emerging security challenges in China’s far western regions.” ​
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HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE SATANIC RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

6/14/2021

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THE FAILED INSTITUTION CALLED STATE DEPARTMENT & HOW TO DEAL WITH AUTOCRATIC MONSTERS ABROAD

2/1/2021

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WEST OF THE REVOLUTION, 1776

2/1/2021

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