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Future Shock
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the roaring current of change, a current so powerful today that it overturns institutions, shifts our values and shrivels our roots. Change is the process by which the future invades our lives,
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“Simply put, there are actions of state that are the right things to do, even if they cannot be defined in terms of conventional morality.”
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
“America is learning an ironic truth of empire: You endure by not fighting every battle. In the first century A.D., Tiberius preserved Rome by not interfering in bloody internecine conflicts beyond its northern frontier. Instead, he practiced strategic patience as he watched the carnage. He understood the limits of Roman power.”
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
“With the Athenians, as with Darius, one is astonished by how the obsession with honor and reputation can lead a great power toward a bad fate. The image of Darius’s army marching into nowhere on an inhospitable steppe, in search of an enemy that never quite appears, is so powerful that it goes beyond mere symbolism.”
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
“The problem with a foreign policy driven foremost by Never Again! is that it ignores limits and the availability of resources. World War II had the secondary, moral effect of saving what was left of European Jewry. Its primary goal and effect was to restore the European and Asian balance of power in a manner tolerable to the United States—something that the Nazis and the Japanese fascists had overturned.”
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
“Because moralists in these matters are always driven by righteous passion, whenever you disagree with them, you are by definition immoral and deserve no quarter; whereas realists, precisely because they are used to conflict, are less likely to overreact to it.”
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
― The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
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The History Book Club
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A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more
Byzantium
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This book group will focus entirely on the byzantine empire( 395-1453) and the historiography, politics, art, music, and literature of it. Feel free t ...more
Islamic history during the early medieval ages.
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