The Meaning of Airstrikes
In Imperial Policing, Sir Charles Gwynn’s bluntly-named 1934 treatise, the British general outlines a theory of airpower as a tool for the “restoration of order” among colonised people.(...)
The Spanish Exception
It’s hard to disagree with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s blunt assessment that the postwar international order “no longer exists”.(...)
The Italian Future Past
Four days before Mussolini’s ghost came back, a friend and I raced through the high-walled alleys of Venice in dazzling afternoon sunshine.(...)