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HANNIBAL vs CAESAR: The Great Leaders of Antiquity Explained in 60 minutes

I join Konstantin Kissin and Francis Fosters, hosts of the Triggernometry Podcast, to talk Hannibal, Caesar, and Alexander too.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmYc58ppe28

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It was a very good year for TEN CAESARS

It was a very good year for TEN CAESARS. The book made three lists of the best books of the year 2019: amazon, War on the Rocks, and National Review Online. TEN CAESARS was an amazon bestseller and one...

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QUARTZ: What Ancient Rome can teach us about the US-China trade war

The current trade war between the United States and China and charges of espionage against Huawei have left the world wondering: What does China want? As suggested by its military buildup, its...

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Listen to Barry on The Art of Manliness Podcast

Barry joins The Art of Manliness Podcast (Episode 487) to discuss Three of the greatest generals of antiquity: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar. Listen here.

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The Death of Caesar in France

The French translation of The Death of Caesar (La Mort de César, Albin Michel, 2018) has received a warm critical reception. Here is a selection from recent reviews: “Caesar probably never cried, when...

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Preemptive Strikes and Preventive Wars – A Historian’s Perspective

My take on risky business in the Hoover Institution’s Strategika: Conflicts of the Past as Lessons for the Present.

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Won’t You Come Home, Bill Windsor?

About this whole presidential election thing…couldn’t it all be somehow less fraught? As William Seward, Lincoln’s Secretary of State once said, “We elect a king for four years.” Some of our presidents...

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Magna Carta – An American Tourist

       After spending several months last year in the Library of Congress and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Magna Carta is back home in England. But events of the last century might have given it a...

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“The US military is one of the greatest fighting forces in history”

At the USAF Academy graduation ceremony in Colorado yesterday President Obama said the US has the greatest military in the history of the world.” I was asked to comment and responded thus:   “If it’s...

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D-Day, A Myth to Live By

          I was five years old in 1959 when Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day appeared and it was probably another 20 years before I picked up a copy but I was already hooked. The 1962 movie – or,...

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Memorial Day 2016: Five Books on America’s Wars for Summer Reading

As I headed out onto the lake this morning in my single scull, a large bird flew by off the port side. I stopped and stared and realized that it was a bald eagle, big, beautiful, majestic and moving...

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It was a very good year for TEN CAESARS

It was a very good year for TEN CAESARS.             The book made three lists of the best books of the year 2019: amazon, War on the Rocks, and National Review Online.             TEN CAESARS was an...

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QUARTZ: What Ancient Rome can teach us about the US-China trade war

The current trade war between the United States and China and charges of espionage against Huawei have left the world wondering: What does China want? As suggested by its military buildup, its...

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Listen to Barry on The Art of Manliness Podcast

Barry joins The Art of Manliness Podcast (Episode 487) to discuss Three of the greatest generals of antiquity: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar. Listen here.

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The Death of Caesar in France

The French translation of The Death of Caesar (La Mort de César, Albin Michel, 2018) has received a warm critical reception. Here is a selection from recent reviews: “Caesar probably never cried, when...

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Preemptive Strikes and Preventive Wars – A Historian’s Perspective

My take on risky business in the Hoover Institution’s Strategika: Conflicts of the Past as Lessons for the Present.

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Won’t You Come Home, Bill Windsor?

About this whole presidential election thing…couldn’t it all be somehow less fraught? As William Seward, Lincoln’s Secretary of State once said, “We elect a king for four years.” Some of our presidents...

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Magna Carta – An American Tourist

       After spending several months last year in the Library of Congress and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Magna Carta is back home in England. But events of the last century might have given it a...

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“The US military is one of the greatest fighting forces in history”

At the USAF Academy graduation ceremony in Colorado yesterday President Obama said the US has the greatest military in the history of the world.” I was asked to comment and responded thus:   “If it’s...

View Article

D-Day, A Myth to Live By

          I was five years old in 1959 when Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day appeared and it was probably another 20 years before I picked up a copy but I was already hooked. The 1962 movie – or,...

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