“For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.” – James Forrestal A recent article reviewed games that might be akin to the international trading process, chess, poker and bridge. That author argues that so much of our rhetoric is militaristic. We
Readers know that as of this writing there is geopolitical and military tension in eastern Europe. Hopefully, the situation will resolve peacefully. This piece is not about those politics. Rather it is about the potential for accidental engagement and how that risk can be mitigated. President Kennedy is famously cited for the comment that referred
Several weeks ago, as an amateur history buff, I was watching a documentary about World War I. During one segment the commentator discussed the apparent fact that if soldiers refused to charge out of their trenches across an open field into the teeth of waiting machine guns they would be shot. The brutality of such
