A collection of 15 posts
Iona Italia talks to historian and film-maker Phil Craig about the latest in his series of books about World War II: ‘1945: A Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World.’
Advancing technology is changing the way we fight wars and our understanding of heroism.
Only when we understand the fragility of liberal democracy will we be properly motivated to defend it.
Far from enhancing American national security, or the security of the world, nuclear weapons will lead us to the edge of destruction.
Forensic anthropologist and former U.S. Marine Julian McBride joins Quillette Cetera host Zoe Booth in a discussion about the war in Gaza.
Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour.
The Ukrainian war has made Manning’s writing more relevant now than at any time since it was written.
Among literary forms, war poetry is unusual for having enjoyed a universally acknowledged and tightly defined golden age.
In 1338, the story has it, a notorious French exile named Robert of Artois strutted into the London palace of King Edward III, bearing a stuffed heron on a silver platter. “Clear the way, you miserable failures,” he said to the assembled lords. “I have a heron … the most cowardly
Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, was a warrior’s warrior. Hawk-nosed, ambitious, and brash, Philip had been a soldier since childhood. He was still a smooth-faced boy of 14 when he fought alongside his father, King John II of France, in the battle of Poitiers in 1356. Like King
Many Finnish soldiers felt pity for their opponents, prodded into battle by merciless commissars.
Published in 1841, Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is as amusing a survey of human folly as has ever been written.
American oil companies didn’t want to topple Saddam Hussein; they wanted to trade with him.
In 2019, though, it turns out that yes, you’re entitled to a book deal—as long as you collect enough marginalization points.
Information warfare combines electronic warfare, cyberwarfare and psy-ops (psychological operations) into a single fighting organisation, and this will be central to all warfare in the future.