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Jutland, land of bad beer and cheap pork, of beautiful heaths and shifting sands, of millennia-old corpses preserved in peat bogs, of Viking myths, and of wind, lots and lots of wi..
Sport clearly reflects the grubby, greedy world that feeds on it, but it also stands apart to some degree, preserving a spectacle of effort and emotion, mind and body, flesh and fe..
Recent military failures in Ukraine and the Middle East shed light on warfare's future while reaffirming the age-old truth that, in conflict, little is ever truly new.
Stagnation at home and turmoil abroad demand a radical rethink of how – and why – Britain forges its future leaders.
Joe Biden's political career began during the Vietnam War and the shadow of that conflict has shaped his view of America's role in the world in the five decades since.
The Tsarist administration, the Bolshevik NKVD and its successor agencies under Putin have all constrained and distorted the scientific project in Russia. Their legacy is one of th..
A market-based approach to conflict misses essential elements of why, despite interdependence and the emergence of international norms, wars that make little rational sense continu..
During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the American military seized millions of pages of secret documents from Saddam Hussein's regime, setting off an ongoing battle for the control of ..
Nazi historiographers sought to present Adolf Hitler as the heir to Charlemagne. They are neither the first, nor the last, to mythologise Charlemagne and attempt to shape his legac..
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