Large numbers of deaths may be good for an American president’s reputation, suggests this new study: “War and Presidential Greatness,” David R. Henderson (Naval Postgraduate School) and Zachary Gochenour [pictured here] (George Mason University), SSRN working paper #2029774, March 27, 2012. The authors explain: “Historians and journalists commonly survey other historians on the relative ‘greatness’ […]
Tag: War
War today in the future
War today, as prognosticated by T. Baron Russell in 1906 in his book A Hundred Years Hence: we may take it as quite certain that war as an institution will be as obsolete as gladiators in the year 2000. Even if the increasing amenity of the human race did not abolish war, two other things […]
Consultants’ triumph (2): War plans
Here’s another example of how successful consultants can take anything — no matter how complex — and make it simple to understand. London-based PA Consulting Group, master analysts of the zombie economy, reportedly produced the diagram shown below [click on it to see an enlarged version]. MSNBC says: “This unclassified document from the Office of […]
History of warfare, told with food
Food Fight is an abridged history of war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. Watch as traditional comestibles slug it out for world domination in this chronologically re-enacted smorgasbord of aggression. That is the claim — and yes, it’s an accurate claim — by the […]