“Russia’s actions in and around Ukraine in 2014, as well as its activities in Syria and farther afield, sparked renewed debate about the character of war and armed conflict and whether it was undergoing a fundamental shift.”
“Of the Romantics under consideration in this book, Philippi and Simon directly engaged with the German colony to such an extent that a significant part of the artworks they made in Chile responded to the specific needs and demands of their fellow citizens.”
The following is an excerpt from Planning War with a Nuclear China: US Military Strategy and Mainland Strikes by John Speed Meyers. In response to the growth of the Chinese military and the perception of a military balance tilting in favor of China, American strategists have devised and compared a number of…
“As the United State rebalances and refocuses within a new strategic paradigm, it is vital that the US military rediscovers the value of Civil Affairs—and that Civil Affairs itself is ready to rise to the challenge.”
“In ways similar to the contemporary bromance, narratives of male friendship were pervasive in early modern Italy, in genres as diverse as lyric poetry, burlesque poetry, the short story, novella-inspired comic theater, the epic (Ariosto), and para-literary or semi-philosophical texts, such as the trattati d’amore (treatises on love) of the sixteenth century.”
“Far from static or stale, these rites and rituals were intimately connected to the display of power and processes of empowerment.”
