Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
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 ..
The United States risks the fate of Bourbon France, whose strategic brilliance in the American War of Independence masked a contradictory grand strategy that led to ruin.
A combination of blood, faith, character and luck drove development in North and South America at a staggeringly different pace, resulting in today's bifurcated hemisphere.
Throughout its history, Islam has been a motor of change and transformation, a protean force defined as much by its variety and adaptability to lived experience as by struggles ove..
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