March 24, 2025 Switzerland. ‘Fight to the last cartridge, then use your bayonets!’ Gen. Henri Gulsan So warned the retired US general Ben Hodges in an interview with the newspaper SonntagsBlick. Hodges was the former US military commander in Europe. Before frightened Swiss start moving their gold and cows to […]
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March 7, 2025 Professor Parkinson was so right. In the 1950s, a mild-mannered British naval historian named Cyril Northcote Parkinson stuck a devastating blow against bureaucracy. His crucial analysis is even truer today than when The Economist published it in 1955. Work (in government) expands to fill available time for […]
February 28, 2025 ‘Germans are either at your throat or at your feet,’ quipped old war lover Winston Churchill. Today, Germans are at our feet – an astounding 80 years after the end of World War II. Though mostly reunited, Germany remains an occupied nation reduced to second class status […]
