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Book: The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
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  1. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    Future generations will learn whether human nature has remained constant-and thus enemies who face only a temporary loss of freedom will prove more, not less, bloodthirsty against both soldier and civilian.
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  2. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    The great American contribution to the Red Army was not just food stocks and strategic materials but nearly four hundred thousand heavy transport trucks, which eventually allowed Stalin a mobility and rapidity lacking among his Nazi enemies on the eastern front.
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  3. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes-toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of consensual governments in their places, and losing fewer soldiers in the effort than during many individual campaigns of the Second World War or Korea-to an ever-innovative American military that learned quickly from mistakes of the kind described in Finding the Target and War Made New. The sometimes dour work of Frederick W. Kagan and Max Boot is itself emblematic of one of our society's greatest strengths: the capacity to adjust to changing events with the help of thinkers who rely on a more deeply informed sense of historical reality than is conveyed in the panicked conclusions of the twenty-four-hour news cycle.
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  4. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    Who we are, how we think, and the manner in which we act, ipsis factis, are considered obnoxious, dangerous, and unpalatable to many fundamentalist Muslims around the globe, who endure manifestations of our power and influence daily, from DVDs in Kabul to text-messaging ads in Yemen.
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  5. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    The United States, being a strong and wealthy society, and with unrivaled global influence, invites envy. The success of its restless culture of freedom, constitutional democracy, self-critique, secular rationalism, and open markets provokes the resentment of both weaker and less-secure theocracy and autocracy alike.
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  6. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    No society in the present age is so self-critical, so ready to embrace foreign ideas, or so transparent and merit-based as the United States. Far more lethal to the U.S. military than a new form of IED would be censorship of ideas back home in the United States, or religious restrictions on research, or politically guided rules of investigation and publication, or government-run monopolies on labor, management, and production.
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  7. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    We should note that almost every technological transformation of consequence has taken place under Western auspices-if not Western in the strict geographical sense, then Western in the notion of a cultural landscape shaped by free thought and the chance for profit. Even non-Western innovations, like stirrups and gunpowder, have been quickly modified and improved by Western militaries. Jet fighters, GPS-guided bombs, and laser-guided munitions are all products of Western expertise. Even the jihadists' most innovative and lethal weapons-improvised explosive devices and suicide belts-are cobbled together from Western-designed explosives and electronics.
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  8. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    Few American commentators evaluated MacArthur's strategic sense at various stages in his generalship in Korea; it was instead the perception of whether he was winning or losing that mattered most to the public.
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  9. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    Greeks and Romans were anti-Mediterranean cultures, in the sense of being at odds with much of the political heritages of Persia, Egypt, and Phoenicia. While Hellenism was influenced-and enriched-at times by Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Persian art, literature, religion, and architecture, its faith in consensual government and free markets was unique. Greek and Latin words for "democracy," "republic," "city-state," "constitution," "freedom," "liberty," and "free speech" have no philological equivalents in other ancient languages of the Mediterranean {and few in the contemporary languages of the non-West as well}.
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  10. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    Harry Truman, after all, in conjunction with Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, radically cut back American arms following the end of the Second World War. Johnson himself wished to dismantle the Marine Corps and felt nuclear weapons had made all such conventional arms unnecessary.
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  11. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets' efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime assurances of elections to come.
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  12. Victor Davis Hanson _ The Father of Us All: War and

    General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, "Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.
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