Sunday, November 17, 2019

Lessons from War

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What Can We Learn from the History of War? Margaret Macmillan - IQ2 > .
23-9-10 Industrial Competition & Consolidation, Military Procurement - Perun > .
23-8-13 Anders & Perun - Theories of Victory & Ruscian Political [In] Stability > .
23-8-13 Game Theory Of Military Spending | EcEx > .
23-7-9 How Wars End - Negotiations, Coercion, War Termination Theory - Perun > .
23-1-22 Politics Can Destroy Armies: Factionalism & R-U War - Perun > .
21-11-2 Describing Military Doctrine - Anders Puck Nielsen > .
Why We Should Study War, with Victor Davis Hanson | PolicyEd > .

War is politics by other means. In other words, when political leaders cannot get what they want through political means, they judge the cost of achieving their goal through military force. Preventing armed conflict requires raising the cost of using force. Until the cost of any armed conflict is prohibitively high, conflicts will continue. 

For more information, visit the PolicyEd.org : https://www.policyed.org/intellection...

“Bellum Interruptum” by Victor Davis Hanson, available here: http://bit.ly/2urtopq
“War: The Gambling Man’s Game” by Kori Schake: http://www.hoover.org/research/war-ga...
“Words matter, even a few” by Victor Davis Hanson: https://victorhanson.com/wordpress/wo... .
Podcast with Kori Schake on American dominance of the international order: http://www.hoover.org/research/kori-s... .

Read “Why Study War?” by Victor Davis Hanson via City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/html/why.... . 
Watch “War, Peace, and Politics with Victor Davis Hanson,” on GoodFellows.  https://www.hoover.org/research/war-p.... . 
Watch “Why Nations Go to War,” PolicyEd. https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... . 
Watch “How Cyber Attacks Threaten Our Security,” on PolicyEd: https://www.policyed.org/intellection.... . 
Watch “War Crimes in Ukraine: The Pursuit of International Justice,” on Battlegrounds, with H. R. McMaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOY7m.... .

Friday, November 1, 2019

● 1940

40-4-9 Invasion of Norway & Denmark 40-6-10 ..
40-5-10 Churchill's new war cabinet ..
40-5-12 Battle of Sedan 40-5-14 Bombing of Rotterdam ..
40-6-1 Dunkirk - June 1 1940 ..
40-6-2 Edward R. Murrow reports the Dunkirk evacuation ..
40-6-10 Italy enters WW2 ..
40-6-15 Operation Aerial/Ariel 40-6-25 ..
40-6-21 Lord Haw Haw threatening a Nazi invasion of the UK ..

● 1939 ..
◦ 39-9-3 to 41-10-20 ◦

Warfare ..
●● Timelines ..
●● Timeline WW2 ..
●● Interbellum ..
●● Cold War & Balance of Power ..

40-7-16 Directive 16

Hitler announces Unternehmen Seelöwe >

sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...