Victor Davis Hanson - War and History: Ancient and Modern

Victor Davis Hanson has long been acclaimed as one of our leading scholars of ancient history. In recent years he has also become a trenchant voice on current affairs, bringing a historian's deep knowledge of past conflicts to bear on the crises of the present, from 9/11 to Iran. "War," he writes, "is an entirely human enterprise." Ideologies change, technologies develop, new strategies are invented-but human nature is constant across time and space. The dynamics of warfare in the present age still remain comprehensible to us through careful study of the past. Though many have called the War on Terror unprecedented, its contours would have been quite familiar to Themistocles of Athens or William Tecumseh Sherman.

The Classicist podcast w/ Victor Davis Hanson: https://www.hoover.org/publications/classicist

Books by Victor Davis Hanson:

The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern: https://amzn.to/2CGwzOG

A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War: https://amzn.to/2CCuumO

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power: https://amzn.to/2D6PqDe

The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won: https://amzn.to/2Se9NCW

Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West: https://amzn.to/2EKfkOY

Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam: https://amzn.to/2CEYWwz