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Welcome to Viewpoints. Viewpoints is the archive of opinion pieces distributed through the History News Service. These essays have appeared in newspapers around the country.

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Soviet soldiers riding on a combat vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1986.
The United States Must Learn From the Soviet War in Afghanistan
President George W. Bush delivers his remarks on the global war on terror during a visit Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, to Atlanta
War and “The Law of Unintended Consequences”
Seal of the University of California.
How Does a Nation Protect Itself in Wartime?
Pearl Harbor Attack
War Can Threaten Civil Liberties at Home
Northern Alliance Troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire
New York City in 1932.
Black Tuesday II
Destruction in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Another Pearl Harbor? Not by a Longshot
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.
Not Only Action but Accountability
A view of the World Trade Center in New York City
Responding to Terror: No Good Choices
Engraving of Robespierre.
The New Species of Terrorism
A wood engraving of President Woodrow Wilson from 1918.
The Osama bin Laden of 1916
President George W. Bush talking on the phone the day of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
War May Raise Serious Issues at Home
The Chrysler Building in New York City.
The “Unimaginable” Has, in Fact, Often Been Imagined
A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.
Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces
Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.
Terrorism: A New Kind of War?
19th century engraving showing Wall Street from the corner of Broad Street.
The First Wall Street Bomb
American soldiers making rolling barbed wire entanglements during World War I.
War Can Take On a Life of Its Own
Photo of the World Trade Towers after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
The End of a “Safe America”
Sébastien Slodtz's statue of Hannibal Barca.
On the Verge of War, Look Before You Leap
USS ARIZONA sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
The 1942 Internments and Today’s Security Crisis
Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006.
Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal
David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israel's independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl.
Zionist Idea of Security Blocks Path to Peace
German and Indian troops as part of the international coalition to put down the Boxer Rebellion
History Shadows U.S.-China Relations
A U.S. Marine Corporal looks through a sniping rifle during a training in California in 2001.
Don’t Compare America Now With Britain Then