Over at the National Interest I do some fast and loose analysis of great powers that decided to build world-competitive navies in the past 130 years or so. Of the four efforts comparable to the development of the modern...
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This is the grave of John J. Pershing. Black Jack Pershing was born in 1860 on a Missouri farm. He graduated from high school in 1878 and took a job.
Here's a statistical series, laying out various points along the 100 longest known durations of a particular event, of which there are billions of known examples. The series begins with.
The teaching of history is central to the culture wars. Like much about the culture wars, conservatives spend a lot more time and energy on this than liberals, which means they often win. So as history professors and writers are increasingly telling stories about injustice,...
One of my New Year's resolutions for 2018 was to watch more television. I've slowly increased my TV viewing over the last couple of years in response to the great.
ca. 1950General Motors contract settlement- first partially paid hospitalization and medical program at union shop. J.W. Livingston, T.A. Johnstone, Irving Bluestone, Guy Nunn, Walter Reuther, Harry.
I haven't read Michelle Obama's memoir. There's a lot about the former First Lady that I admire, but the book isn't an especially high-priority read for me. Ashon Crawley has read it. And this piece from him about an especially problematic section is important: What are we...
My latest at the National Interest takes a look at what might come next for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force: Japan is an.
Two nights ago, I met my partner for a cocktail at a bar near our house in Madison, Wisconsin. (My job is in Iowa City, her job is in Madison,.
Japan has decided to go for it. Japan appears to be prepared to take the next step to convert its Izumo-class helicopter destroyers into VSTOL (vertical and/or short take-off...
President David Cop-A-Feel is dead. We are going to see a lot of liberal lament for Bush now that he is gone. Heck, we even see that for his terrible.
This is the grave of Gore Vidal. Eugene Louis Vidal was born in 1925 in West Point, New York. Known as Gore, after his grandfather Thomas Gore, former senator from.