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Tag Archives: Dwight D. Eisenhower
fifties: hit the _IKE button
…So, in the summer of 1952, when the Republicans nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for President and he at once promised to end the war if elected, millions of Americans, crying, “I like Ike!”, swung onto the Eisenhower bandwagon. The country … Continue reading
the fifties: nobody’s mad at nobody
Like no other decade, the 1950′s incarnated the process of myth making in a very conspicuous manner into rosy myths in the shadows of unrosy reality that has resulted in some enduring Great Revivals that have tended to get out … Continue reading
nostalgic about the fifties
Must we be nostalgic about the fifties? Color the decade green, the color of chlorophyll; sprinkle with freckles, like Howdy Doody; add a smear of red lipstick, and put it in a sack. What do you get? An Edsel. Thinking … Continue reading
clausewitz: “its absolute form”
In Clausewitz’s view, it is absurd to try to “win” wars by military means alone, because, as he says, no major plan of war can bemade without political understanding and insight. The political setting not only determines the aims and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Alvin Toffler, Benny Gantz IDF, Carl von Clausewitz, Clausewitz On War, David Crist The Twilight War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frederick the Great, J.J. Graham Clausewitz, kirsten cale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, martin van creveld, Oliver Cromwell, president eisenhower, rachel corrie, steven metz, The Marshall Plan
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