Summary: The corruption of our language, mostly by the Left, already is producing a host of ill effects. We cannot communicate with each other. Increasingly we are incapable of clear thought. Perhaps worst of all, we are alienated from our own history and culture. As with so much going wrong today, we long ago were …
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Now our inheritance of honor is exhausted, rendering many forms of our politics meaningless.
Bowman shatters the usual trite ideas about the start of WWI. Change the the names and details, much of it applies to the War on Terror.
Summary: We continue James Bowman’s series about honor by looking at the last major war in which honor was sincerely at stake in the minds of its participants. We can and should learn much from it, if we try. Lyo-lyok: “Dear me, you are a silly. There are no boundaries among the geese.” Wart: “What …
Summary: In this second post about the real revolution in military affairs, Martin van Creveld examines why men fight. Rather than the conventional political and geopolitical factors, he looks at the psychology of excellence, honor, spirituality, and PTSD. It’s worth some thought as we begin the second round of our long war. See part one …
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