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The history of modern warfare suggests that leaders who are ruthless towards failing ministers and generals are best able to keep their armed forces innovative on the battlefield.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to raise Japan’s game. But, given her reputation as a pioneer, she is remarkably backward-looking.
During the great conflicts of the 20th century, Russia and Germany waged a bitter struggle for control of the Baltic Sea and its surrounding territories, forcing profound transform..
British commanders are still trained to prize the flash of intuitive brilliance. In an age of AI and autonomous systems, that instinct may prove actively regressive.
Two hundred and fifty years after the first volume of the Decline and Fall, Edward Gibbon's diagnosis of why Rome collapsed is a warning to our own age.
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Baltic Sea witnessed a series of epic struggles between powers seeking to dominate the region's waterways and those who wished to prise the..
The People's Republic of China has long harboured ambitions in the High North, and now seeks to extend its influence by exploiting the effects of climate change and rifts within th..
The Paris of the Belle Époque continues to fascinate, with its burgeoning commercial culture, everyday beauty and glittering department stores.
Robot-assisted surgery is already routine practice. But the dream of a machine operating alone underestimates the practical judgement, learned over decades, that makes a surgeon a ..
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