A collection of 11 posts
In April 1940, Danes, Germans, Brits, Americans, and Canadians had designs on the world’s largest island. Eighty-five years later, many of their arguments sound eerily familiar.
The unpopular secretary of defence may not survive his latest scandal.
Lessons from 7 October and the 2023–25 war.
The leaders of NATO admit that they must pay for their own military defence but seem reluctant to put their commitments into practice.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews Jonathan Spyer, director of research at the Middle East Forum, about how Israel laid the groundwork for its war with Iran by confronting threats in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
Contra the critics, the advent of nuclear weapons has made the world far safer.
Far from enhancing American national security, or the security of the world, nuclear weapons will lead us to the edge of destruction.
In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.
The Jewish state is facing security threats from groups based in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Yemen—all of them supported by Iran.
The danger—or opportunity, depending on your view—is that two radical candidates like Mélenchon and Zemmour win the first round.
In the spirit of the Handbook on German Military Forces, I offer readers this brief field guide to the various kinds of “Nazis” who inhabit the world of 2018.