(Une version française suit en dessous) I stand by the following conclusion of my 2009 book, “The History of the Culture of War”, but there have been important changes as I will discuss below. Here is what I wrote in 2009: “From the beginning of recorded history until the present time the culture of war … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) History is dialectical, as described by Hegel, Marx and Engels. We see this in our times as three policies of aggression have led to the increased solidarity of those who have been attacked. 1. The commercial media is full of stories about the first case: Russia’s invasion of the … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) Europe was the epicenter of World Wars I and II, and now it threatens, with its war in the Ukraine, to kindle World War III. As usual in history, overt warfare is the fruit of a constant, underlying culture of war. And in the case of Europe, it was … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) This is the first of two blogs for April, 2022. The other one is entitled THE UKRAINE WAR COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED The title of this blog comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) We continue to be threatened by the culture of war, which, as usual in recent history, is monopolized by the nation states. Russia has massed military forces around the borders of Ukraine in the ancient tradition of the culture of war. Russia links this to insistence that Ukraine should … Read more