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Book Review: For Military Merit: Recipients of the Purple Heart

By Robert F. Dorr in Defense Wide under Commentary, Defense Issues, Featured, History with no comments

Book Review: For Military Merit: Recipients of the Purple Heart

Special operations troops and military service members caught up in terrorist attacks are among more than one million Americans who’ve received the Purple Heart.

While the original criteria specified that the award be given ...more »

Book Review: The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

By Mike Markowitz in Defense Wide under Commentary, Featured with 1 comment

Book Review: The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Edward Luttwak. Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press. 2009. 512pp. $35 hardcover. ISBN 978-0-674-03519-5

In 1976, military analyst Edward Luttwak published The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: from ...more »

How Real Is the Threat of Cyberwar?

By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Commentary with no comments

How Real Is the Threat of Cyberwar?

Official efforts to combat cyber threats – especially the prospect of cyberwar – have grown dramatically in recent months.

President Obama plans to name a “cyber czar”, a high-level White House focal point for ...more »

Is the U.S. Mimicking 17th Century Spain?

By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Commentary with no comments

Is the U.S. Mimicking 17th Century Spain?

It has become commonplace in recent years to compare the United States to Rome, Greece, even Egypt – how those mighty civilizations fell and where America may be emulating them.

But there is a ...more »

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