by Lynn C. Rees | Mar 5, 2014 | Monitor
[exhumed by Lynn C. Rees] If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble but neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power. – Theodore Roosevelt One of the great...
by Lynn C. Rees | Mar 5, 2014 | Monitor
[resuscitated by Lynn C. Rees] A book review of Max Hastings’ book Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945: John F. Kennedy said that in 1940 Churchill mobilized the English language and sent it to battle. But that was the problem. Churchill saw war in...
by Lynn C. Rees | Feb 26, 2014 | Monitor
[belatedly acknowledged by Lynn C. Rees] Here’s strategy at its most concrete. Of all human imposed constants in American strategy, this is the most constant: Russia is the only threat on earth that can destroy the United States of America in hours. Though this...
by Lynn C. Rees | Feb 22, 2014 | Monitor
[summoned from the far regions of the deep bench by Lynn C. Rees] Jozef Pilsudski was a minor Polish noble born in the Lithuanian countryside in Poland’s historic periphery. Roman Dmowski was an impoverished commoner born in the city of Warsaw, deep in...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jan 20, 2014 | Monitor
[given unnatural long life by Lynn C. Rees] The United States presidential election of 1912 was fought over one fundamental issue: how to handle the political repercussions of the emergence of large concentrations of economic power between the American Civil War and...
