Tag: Winston Churchill
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How Do We Learn?
How Do We Learn? How is it that we anticipate a coming threat, so as to understand and meet it? Unusually, the danger may be new. The Internet was revolutionary, so cyber attack is largely a new threat to us. It cannot be met by hiring more postal inspectors but must be considered and defeated…
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Anarchism & Fire in London: A Centenary
“Anarchism & Fire in London: A Centenary” In London, one hundred years ago, on the weekday morning of 3 January, citizens awoke amidst “The Siege of Sidney Street.” Well-armed Anarchists tried to rob a jeweler, murdered police who responded, and then disappeared within the city. Located in an apartment building after two weeks, they were…
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‘Are We Beasts’ Churchill And The Moral Question Of World War II ‘Area Bombing’
Read the full article This historical reassessment of the World War II British bombing campaign notes that though in 1940 Churchill declared that he was waging “a military and not a civilian war” to destroy “military objectives” and not “women and children,” within eighteen months both types of targets would be struck by Bomber Command.…