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
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleQUARTZ: 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...
View ArticleListen 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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePreemptive 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.
View ArticleWon’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...
View ArticleMagna 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...
View Article“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 ArticleD-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,...
View ArticleMemorial 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...
View ArticleIt 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...
View ArticleQUARTZ: 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...
View ArticleListen 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.
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePreemptive 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.
View ArticleWon’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...
View ArticleMagna 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...
View Article“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 ArticleD-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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