Historian Barbara Tuchman won a Pulitzer Prize in 1962 for The Guns of August, her magisterial study of how the European powers blundered into World War I. An early reader of the book was John F. Kennedy, who applied the lessons of that book to help the US avoid similar blunders during the tense days […]
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No New Nukes
Now that George Bush and Dick Cheney are held in nearly-universal scorn, there seems to be a creeping complacency in America, that they’ve done all the harm they can and all we have to do is wait 17 months and the bozos will be gone. That’s not true, there’s plenty of mischief still available to […]