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Herbert Hoover

We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again

… effectively with future hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires and mudslides, we’ll need to train a cadre of Herbert Hoovers. With more storms brewing in the Gulf and fires sweeping across the west, it’s not too soon to start …

From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine

… insurgent forces. Russian forces in Chechnya used massive firepower to destroy guerrilla forces and sanctuaries in the … its destruction has most often entailed extensive use of firepower, widespread devastation of civilian habitats, and … a number of key areas. Amnesty legislation and local cease fires reduced the number of fighters opposing the …
Veterans Day Poster 1980.

Keeping Veterans Day Alive

… after the city council cut the parade’s funding. Only a firestorm of protests from the Florida city’s residents …
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Allenby dismounted as a sign of respect for the holy city.

The Collapse of Ottoman Power

Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)
… Mediterranean division of the German Imperial Navy—opened fire on a Russian gunboat and a mine-laying vessel. The …
Grover Cleveland, painted by Anders Zorn in 1899

The Politics of Civility

… beginning of the republic, political criticism trained its fire on the private character of elected officials. During …
Anti-draft protest outside the Department of Justice in 1967.

The Draft — for Democracy

… found themselves slogging through an Asian jungle under fire. Young men with political connections, such as George …

The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray

… for not only instigating the conflict but for stoking its fires long after they should have burned out. Some of the … force Ethiopian leaders to agree to their terms of a ceasefire. According to Getachew Reda, spokesperson for the TPLF, …
Amritsar Massacre

The Amritsar Massacre (1919)

The massacre and continued police brutality were turning points in Indian anti-colonialism.
… in India, British soldiers led by Colonel Reginald Dyer fired on an unarmed, non-violent crowd of Indians. Learn …