Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
Rules of a different type of war Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam John A. Nagl INTRODUCTION There are two powerful ideas which I am constantly trying to place before my students. The first...
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What Could Lee See at Gettysburg?
A NEW METHOD OF CONSIDERING HISTORY A Sense of Where You Are by Anne Knowles EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION Early in his career one of our finest writers, John McPhee, wrote a memorable book about Bill...
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad is instructional treasure. It is such a vast topic, one so little-known by American students, and one that it is almost endlessly engaging
Geometry, Radar and Empire
My students always get a kick out of writing like this – provocative, smart, funny, and taking with a big idea. In this case, the idea is really big: that radar was a precursor to GPS in giving us a way to
Dracula as a Foretelling of WWI
With the 1897 publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the English were exposed to a terrifying Gothic novel that expressed the fears of the age: Questions of invasion, identity, and war were entangled in a dramatic story about vampires feeding on women and
