Lessons from history

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Lessons

  • 2007-01-22 "The Iraq War and the Sicilian Campaign" by Brent T. Ranalli, Part I and Part II: a lesson from 415 BC, in which Athens, a "superpower" of the day, was ultimately destroyed by over-investment in an ill-considered war (see also Alcibiades)
  • 2006-12-03 How Our Civilization Can Fall by Orson Scott Card: offers a reasonable-sounding argument (and perhaps even a workable model) for the US to remain in Iraq, based on historical civilization-wide crashes
  • 2002-07-22 The Talent Myth: lessons from Enron and World War II
  • History 102: The Social Philosophy of American Businessmen, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison History Department
  • How Hitler rose to power in a Democratic country even though his party were very much in the minority
  • How the US has recreated the Enabling Act from 1933 Germany
  • Able Archer 83, a NATO excercise from 1983.11.02-11, came close to convincing the USSR that a first strike was imminent, in response to which they readied their nuclear forces and placed air units in East Germany and Poland on alert.