Victor Davis Hanson

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

Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“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

The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

— Victor Davis Hanson

“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

Politicians in their hubris who believe they can ignore debt or wish it away are sorely disappointed - as we see now…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Almost every key indicator of the current economy - unemployment, deficits, housing, energy - argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Nor did Americans believe that Republicans had been waging war on minorities, women, or gays - especially given that Republicans have held…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Donald Trump, he didn't dismantle Eastern European missile defense. He didn't go to Geneva and press a plastic red button. He didn't…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing…

— Victor Davis Hanson

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“No society in the present age is so self-critical, so ready to embrace foreign ideas, or so transparent and merit-based as the…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“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

If the Democrats feel they have lost the public's confidence in their stewardship of national security, then the threat of Iran offers…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“We should note that almost every technological transformation of consequence has taken place under Western auspices—if not Western in the strict geographical…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.

— Victor Davis Hanson

I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

— Victor Davis Hanson

Behind every American soldier, dozens of their countrymen tonight sleep soundly — and hundreds more in their shadow abroad will wake up…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never…

— Victor Davis Hanson