C. R. Hallpike, How We Got Here: from bows and arrows to the space age (2008). Until about 10,000 years ago our ancestors lived in small exogamous groups consisting of 25-50 persons each: men, wo...
Day by day we are told how men, society, nature, and in some cases even women themselves conspire to keep women down and out. To convince yourself of this fact, all you have to do is open Google....
http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/they-are-defended-and-supported-by-men-2/
Against the background of the continuing Iranian-Israeli tensions, it may be useful to take another look at what is at stake. Iran is a large country comprising some 1,600,000 square kilometers, ...
http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/something-for-the-mullahs-to-think-about/
Day by day, we are told how men, society, nature, and in some cases even women themselves conspire to keep women down and out. To convince yourself of this fact, all you have to do is open Google...
http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/they-are-defended-and-supported-by-men/
As I am getting older, I find myself less and less interested in the kind of books—mainly academic, mainly about history—I’ve spent a lifetime reading. Instead, like some other authors arou...
Back in 1938-39, Britain—heartland of the largest empire that ever was—found itself coming under attack in no fewer than three main theaters at once. One, the closest home, was Western Europe...
By Colonel (res.) Dr. Moshe Ben David* Professor Yuval Harari, who teaches modern history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has turned himself into one of the leading intellectuals of the We...
http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/guest-article-why-hamas-will-lose/
Stanley, The Promethean, Kindle, 2017. A madcap world filled with madcap characters. A godforsaken English village called Tussock’s Bottom where the favorite drink is a kind of beer affectionat...
To most people, whether or not a ruler or country “uses” nuclear weapons is a simple choice between either dropping them on the enemy or not doing so. For “experts,” though, things are mu...
The following is an interview I did for a leading Austrian magazine. Although, in the end, the text did not see the light of print, I considered it interesting enough to post it here. How did Ham...