Today’s crop of political leaders lacks the military experience to recognize the importance of maritime power.
Yet there is a lot to be said for militarism where military matters are concerned. The besetting problem of Britain and the United States before 1914 and again before 1939 was the tendency to leave decisions about grand strategy to [...]

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Tired of American global dominance? Just consider the alternatives. By Niall Ferguson.
Critics of U.S. global dominance should pause and consider the alternative. If the United States retreats from its hegemonic role, who would supplant it? Not Europe, not China, not the Muslim world—and certainly not the United Nations. Unfortunately, the alternative to a single superpower [...]

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In his upcoming book about the horrors of the 20th century (The war of the World), the British historian Niall Ferguson has a chapter called The Pity of Peace. It is about 1938 when World war II loomed and Britain — especially and importantly Britain — did precious little to stop it. [...]

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Niall Ferguson:
The U.S.-Soviet nuclear rivalry was scary enough. Now imagine a world with multiple atomic antagonists.
May 15, 2006
Fast forward to 2016. What does the world look like? One plausible scenario is that it will be a world of multiple mini-Cold Wars, with nuclear powers eyeball to eyeball in nearly every region. To [...]

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The origins of the Great war of 2007 - and how it could have been prevented
By Niall Ferguson
(Filed: 15/01/2006)
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Are we living through the origins of the next world war? Certainly, it is easy to imagine how a future historian might deal with the next phase of events in the Middle East:
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With every [...]

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