It’s been said about Oliver Cromwell, that regardless of your political or religious stance, for or against, if you look up “Oliver Cromwell” you will find what you are looking for. The “Cromwell Interregnum” is defined as that period of…
Author: vassar
Wahr—Occupation and Guerilla War?
We need to briefly outline how wahrs were fought even though we will likely never see them fought this way again. Don’t look for open engagements with lines of troops shooting at one another, or charging into one another…unless, like…
Prussians, Monty Python and the Stupidity of Blind Believers; The Thinking Beneath the Thinking
In August, 1914, the first month of World War I, (then, also expected to be the last month), a German scientist, sitting with a group in Aachen which included Irvin S Cobb, then-journalist for the “Saturday Evening Post” (and highest…