East of Appomattox: Where Old Times Are Still Not Forgotten
One of the great joys of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee is that when I am out hiking the mountainous landscape of the Appalachian and…
Critters in the Trench
Critters in the trench Instance man’s return To the state of nature. Strategists become Heirs to Hercules Ancient Romans prayed to. Iron General: Does, like any man,…
Israel and Its Enemies
The Hamas blitz into Israel during the holiday of Simchat Torah and day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War has brought shock and outrage…
The Birth of the SAS: Butcher-and-Bolt in a Sea of Sand
Today, the SAS (‘’Special Air Service’’) are as revered as they are feared, with their practices, aims, and methods shrouded in mystery. Most cannot join, and those…
Electric Birds
Out in that vast dark we had to keep sight Of what brought us to that desert kingdom, Beneath which swam the darkest currency. Soldiers to the…
The Long Road to Ukraine
At the age of nine, Frank Furedi experienced a historical event that he would never forget. The Soviet Army crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, forcing Furedi…
An Introduction to English War Poetry
When we think of English poetry, we are right to think of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Donne, Milton, and all of the other patron saints of English literature. Their…
These are the Boys of Pointe du Hoc
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For 4 long years, much of…
A Teacher and Student’s Perspective on the War in Ukraine
In November 2021 I was invited to a Round Table Discussion organized by The International Relations Student Organization from Corvinus university of Budapest. The Topic of interest…
War, Logical Singularity, and Oxymoron Syndrome
What we are talking about in this article has nothing to do with what was theorized in his time (1873) by that genius who was James Clerk…
The U.S. Navy’s Strategical Awakening
From the 1870s-1890s the U.S. Navy experienced a strategical awakening. Changes in technology, international politics, and other factors drove officers to develop new concepts of naval professionalism,…
The Rhetorical War Presidency of Barack Obama
Scholars of presidential rhetoric try to understand how presidents lead through speech. The classical studies of the rhetorical presidency examine how presidents "go public," how they use…
The Geopolitical Law of Nature in Thucydides
Thucydides is generally not considered a philosopher in the sense that Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle are. David Bolotin, for instance, said, “[Thucydides] is not generally thought of…
War, Progress, and Sociology in the Age of Ideology
In the preface to The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet explained the theme of his work: “I have chosen to deal with the political cause of the…
Yves R. Simon: A Thomist looks at a Divisive Invasion
The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought. Yves R. Simon with Anthony O. Simon, ed., and Robert Royal, trans. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,…