Kaiserschlacht – German Spring Offensive 1918 I THE GREAT WAR Week 191
23 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
All is Fair in Love & War: Sex during World War I
23 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War I
The Trans-Saharan Railway: A Forgotten Chapter of Vichy Oppression
20 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, International law, law and economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: France, Nazi Germany, The Holocaust, World War II
The phrase “From hero to zero” is perhaps the most fitting way to describe the trajectory of Philippe Pétain’s legacy. Once hailed as a national savior and military genius, his descent into infamy was marked by his collaboration with Nazi Germany and his betrayal of France’s republican values. Pétain: From World War I Hero to […]
The Trans-Saharan Railway: A Forgotten Chapter of Vichy Oppression
A bizarre decision by the Imperial War Museum
19 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I, World War II
Lord Ashcroft writes: My disappointment at learning about the planned closure of the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum has been tempered by the touching reaction to the imminent loss of my medal collection from public viewing. I remain hugely disappointed at the decision of the IWM to shut the gallery, which displays…
A bizarre decision by the Imperial War Museum
Allied Unified Command On The Horizon I THE GREAT WAR Week 190
17 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The death of patriotism
14 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace Tags: British politics
These UK poll results from Matt Goodwin are disturbing. The number of adults who would refuse to fight for their country has more than doubled in 20 years from 19% to 41%. In one sense it is no surprise. When “the blob” constantly portrays your country as an oppressor, and that you should be ashamed […]
The death of patriotism
Hawks, doves, Israel and Iran
13 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: game theory, Iran, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
In The Conversation last October, Andrew Thomas (Deakin University) discussed the recent (at that time) military flare-up between Iran and Israel, likening it to a ‘game of chicken’:Israel’s strike on military targets in Iran over the weekend is becoming a more routine occurrence in the decades-long rivalry between the two states…There is a reason why…
Hawks, doves, Israel and Iran
The WaPo describes (and distorts) a big “culture war” in New Zealand
10 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, discrimination, economic history, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, Age of Enlightenment, constitutional law, free speech, media bias, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
ADDENDUM: See added comments and clarifications under “addendum” at bottom. ******************** I’ve written many times about the battle of the indigenous people in New Zealand (the Māori) to get their “way of knowing”—which includes a lot of superstition and unreliable word-of-mouth “knowledge,” as well as legends and morality—adopted as official policy or as a “way […]
The WaPo describes (and distorts) a big “culture war” in New Zealand
A misleading case of “trauma inherited across generations”
03 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of education, health economics Tags: behavioural genetics
Here we have a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports, accompanied by a news piece in Science, that sends a misleading message to the public, both about “inheritance of trauma” and the effects of epigenetic changes. Both pieces are free to access; click on the first headline below to go to the news piece, and […]
A misleading case of “trauma inherited across generations”
Ludendorff’s Window Of Opportunity I THE GREAT WAR Week 188
02 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
World War 2 rations on the British Home Front
27 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, health economics, war and peace Tags: rationing, World War II
Tinned Snoek: Britain’s Most Disliked Ration of the Second World War
25 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, health economics, war and peace Tags: rationing, World War II
Should they be returned?
24 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: economics of borders, maps, Nazi Germany, World War I, World War II
Operation Faustschlag – Germany Advances In The East Again I THE GREAT W…
23 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
3 things the M4 Sherman did BETTER than other tanks
22 Feb 2025 2 Comments
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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