The clausewitz factor

The German army is often depicted as an epic, unstoppable machine. There’s no doubt that, at the outbreak of the First World War, it was the most formidably organised military force on the planet – bu

A prolonged conflict, a modified Treaty of Versailles and no League of Nations may have transpired without direct American involvement in WWI

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Could lessons from the last great conflict help the democratic world triumph over the rise in autocratic power?

On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying

The rich cross-cultural exchange between Indian and German thought