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Christopher Clark: The Great Belgian blunder
On November 20, The Cundill Prize in Historical Literature at McGill will be awarded to the author of a book “determined to have had (or likely to have) a profound literary, social and academic impact...
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Jonathan Kay: Hail to the French
This coming spring will mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide, when as many as a million innocent civilians were butchered to death by Hutu tribal extremists in an orgy of bloodshed that...
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Shaun Francis: Don’t blame soldier suicides on Afghanistan
Last month, I spent a weekend in the Gatineau Hills training for the upcoming True Patriot Love Expedition to the Magnetic North Pole, which aims to raise awareness of the physical and mental injuries...
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Father Raymond J. De Souza: How a New Orleans boat-maker beat the Nazis
Last week was full of history — the 10th anniversary of the death of the man who won the Cold War, Ronald Reagan, and the 25th anniversary of the date it was won, when Solidarity won the first free...
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Weissenberger and Koch: The First World War battle that doomed thousands of...
One hundred years ago last week, the First World War’s outcome hung in the balance. Had the Battle of the Marne gone a little differently, the war might have been over before the first Canadian...
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Rex Murphy: Out of the Great War’s trenches, a poetry fit for the age of...
Out of the First World War came something of a new poetry. From the days of Homer and his great Illiad, Western poetry, if it did not purely celebrate the glories or war, the prowess of its heroes, its...
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Janice Gross Stein: It’s time to update the laws of war
In an unintended irony, the laws of war are contributing to the lawlessness of our times. They make asymmetric war more, not less likely. Asymmetric warfare is the weapon of choice for those who are...
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Ukrainian rebels threaten an all-out offensive, defying agreement to return...
Russian-backed separatists promised Thursday to follow up a devastating victory over Ukrainian forces at Donetsk airport with a further advances, defying an agreement between Moscow and Kiev to return...
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Randolph Churchill: How my great-grandfather, Winston Churchill, kept...
My great-grandfather, Winston Churchill, had an extraordinary ability to reach out to people. But the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman, in a program next week about Churchill’s funeral, believes he would not thrive...
View ArticleGeorge Jonas: When to go to war
No one has a good word for war, but few can resist engaging in it. When statesmen meet to negotiate peace, war is generally “on the table.” Nothing is as unpopular as war, yet war is a universal...
View ArticleGeorge Jonas: History's unforgotten wrongs
If I wrote that it’s not important to know things, I would be (a) wrong and (b) crazy. Wrong, because information is useful, and crazy because I’m in the information business. I sell apples from the...
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Dean Jobb: The tale of the Tallahassee
On a mid-August morning in 1864, Halifax newspapers reported that “a strange armed vessel of rakish appearance,” manned by a crew of “thieves, felons and freebooters,” had dropped anchor in the...
View ArticleAlan Bowker: The shock of peace in 1918
At the break of dawn on Nov. 11, 1918, in the Belgian city of Mons, Corporal Will Bird, a Nova Scotian in the 42nd Black Watch, prepares for another day of bloody fighting against German machine...
View ArticleKitty Wintrob: My wartime evacuation from London, 75 years ago today
I exploded awake to the terrible wail of an air raid siren. It was already morning. It was a sound I had heard before, in practice drills. But now it seemed to go on forever. My stomach turned over. It...
View ArticleMatt Gurney: There will be more Omar Khadrs. We need a better system to deal...
Years ago, a friend of mine who’d served in an allied military, after a few drinks, told me about the worst day of his life. His unit was trying to secure — he laughed when he used that term — a...
View ArticleGeorge Jonas: We expect 15-year-olds to do what their parents say....
The latest poll says Canadians are about evenly divided between those who consider Omar Khadr a child soldier and those who think he’s a menace. Of course, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. A child...
View ArticleWalter Pincus: The real lesson of Vietnam
What are the right lessons from America’s Vietnam experience that can be applied to the current situation in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East? The United States in the 1960s and early 1970s found...
View ArticleMatthews & Schouela: Protecting schools during wartime
Though not widely reported in mainstream North American media, representatives from over 60 countries recently met in Norway to attend the “Oslo Conference on Safe Schools.” The high-level meeting...
View ArticleGeorge Jonas: As acts of war, attacks like Chattanooga are small beer
U.S. authorities are bending over backwards not to rush to judgment, at least in public, about the motives of Muhammad Youseff Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born Jordanian-American, who last week...
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