A historian's comments on current events, foreign and domestic.
posted by David Kaiser at 11:18 AM
For the past 34 years I have been a historian of international and domestic politics, as well as an authority on some of the more famous criminal cases in American history. For the past five years I have been using this space to comment on current events. Links to my books, including, The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (2008), appear below. Simply click to learn more about them or to order them. A collection of History Unfolding from 2004 through 2008 is also available as a book below. The email circulating widely attributed to me comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler is a forgery: see snopes.com/politics/soapbox/proportions.asp. Comments are welcome, but comments that are both abusive and anonymous will be deleted. All views expressed here are my own and do not represent the policy of my current employer the Naval War College.
1 Comments:
Professor:
Many thanks for this succinct post.
I hope, and trust, that this is not an effort to show that globalization, and free trade, have been a 'success' in reducing militarism generally;
or that, as a result of ostensibly reduced military spending (our spending has been huge however, regardless of size of army),
the future is smooth sailing, from here to eternity.....
Perhaps I misinterpret your point, in this graphic?
Perhaps one point is that all combatants will be weaker, as against all others? Granted, then.
I would concede that that is apparently true, at least at the moment, according to the received wisdom.
Gervazi's book, dated now, The Myth Of Soviet Military Supremacy, was a good antidote, it seemed, back then, to illusions, re spending versus 'size of armies', in my judgment.
Perhaps I can be corrected, on such an amateurish notion.
All the best,
GM
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