Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Athens’s disastrous 415 B.C. expedition against Sicily, the largest democracy in the Greek world, may not prefigure our war in Iraq. (A… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“General George Patton and others lamented that the Second World War had broken out in 1939 over saving the free peoples of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Military history teaches us, contrary to popular belief, that wars are not necessarily the most costly of human calamities. The allied coalition… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“The Price of Neglect A PUBLIC THAT’S illiterate about the conflicts of the past can easily find itself confused during wartime. Without… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I wish I could attribute the absence of any conventional Arab offensive in the last 20 years to a change of political climate or… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Nicholas Monsarrat’s epic postwar novel of the Battle of the Atlantic, The Cruel Sea, is a quite different, nightmarish elemental story of men at… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
For all the criticism about warlords, it is now likely that Afghanistan will never again be turned over to al Qaeda to train thousands… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The columnist like myself or people at Stanford University don't wake up in the morning and see their job outsourced. Yet we promote free… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
A country that cannot count its own illegal aliens - estimates range from 8-12 million - with a porous 2,000 mile border is not… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Japan would live and die by the race card—defining (and demonizing) America as “white” and thus Japan as a kindred but clearly superior “yellow”… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
