After serving fourteen years in the State Department, Robert Kagan achieved prominence in the late 1990s as a leading “neo-conservative” advocate of a more forceful employment of US power to shape the world in accordance with American values, particularly through the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq as part of a more general attempt…
Tag: World War I
H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 15-31 on Larsen, >Plotting for Peace
The 2022 release of the German film “All Quiet on the Western Front” can only lead one to again raise the salient question of whether there was a time in the history of World War I when the carnage could have been stopped. Two works have recently addressed this topic. One is Philip Zelikow’s The…
H-Diplo|RJISSF Review Essay 91: Doenecke on McCrae, Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War
Meighen McCrae has performed a singular service in writing a succinct history of the Supreme War Council (SWC), the major Allied coordinating agency of World War I. “Allies” is used in this review, as in McCrea’s book, as the wider coalition involving Britain, France, and Italy, and that included the United States, an “associated” power (1,…
Review Essay 51 on The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemyśl
The centenary of World War I has been a significant stimulus to new research about that conflict. Like any historical era, the meaning and consequences of the war have been reinterpreted in light of our own twenty-first century concerns. The perception that in recent years the world has witnessed a ‘return to geopolitics,’ ending the…