MAY 10, 2022 • page
What Was the Powell Doctrine?
Author and veteran reporter Marvin Kalb describes the Powell Doctrine—the philosophy that informed George H. W. Bush's decision to hit Iraq hard and get ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
How Does WWI Relate to Boko Haram?
Charles Sennott, founder and executive director of TheGroundTruthProject, explains how tensions between Northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria, and the resulting Boko Haram insurgency, can be ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
Was World War I Necessary?
Author Sir Max Hastings warns us against thinking that the First World War was less important than the Second World War.
MAY 10, 2022 • page
Lawrence of Arabia and the 1916 Arab Revolt
Author Scott Anderson explains the significance of the 1916 Arab revolt, T. E. Lawrence's historic first trip to Arabia, and why Lawrence was able to play ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
What Distinguished WWI from WWII?
Author Sir Max Hastings argues that the Second World War is sometimes perceived by Westerners as less devastating than the First, in part, because Russians ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
Did Nuclear Weapons Cause Japan to Surrender?
Ward Wilson, senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, explains that the Soviet declaration of ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
Japanese and German Postwar Reconciliation
Asia scholar Ian Buruma reflects on why German post-World War II reconciliation efforts have been more successful than Japanese ones, despite the similarity of the ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
When Did The Soviet Union Disintegrate?
Harvard professor Serhii Plohky's book "The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union" takes an alternative view in analyzing the fall of the Soviet ...