Reading Time: 3 minutes Combat naturally leads to behaviours that would be deemed shocking in normal life
Tag: War/Conflict
Will Ukraine’s fate be the same as that of 1940s Finland?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Finland was truly alone. That’s not the case with Ukraine today
Ukraine, Taiwan, and the politics of big neighbour resentment
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anyone who resists is a “traitor”and therefore deserving of brutal retribution
Russia’s most formidable weapons? Oil and gas
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why isn’t the West reacting more strongly to Russian aggression? Energy supplies
Putin wants to turn Ukraine into a vassal state
Reading Time: 5 minutes He must be stopped before he plunges Europe into another war
Canada needs to stand on guard in the post-Covid-19 world
Reading Time: 5 minutes The world is becoming increasingly unstable and military force may be required to ensure our security and prosperity
Eisenhower was cagey but Kennedy rushed in
Reading Time: 4 minutes In 1961, as a young president prepared to take over from an aging one, their perspectives on military responsibility were starkly different
Fake news? Every era had its perpetrators
Reading Time: 5 minutes Early newspapers were often more interested in expressing the opinions of the owners than the facts
The building of the Atomic Bomb Part 4
Reading Time: 5 minutes Until his death in 1970, Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves never had a single regret about the lives that were lost as a result of the Manhattan Project
The building of the Atomic Bomb Part 3
Reading Time: 4 minutes The majority of people who worked on the Manhattan Project were only told what they needed to know to do their jobs