Dwight Eisenhower
To End the Ukraine War, Trump Should Think Like Ike
If Trump can channel Eisenhower on Ukraine, he will be able to claim that he has achieved the peace “deal of the century.”
Duck and Cover Was a Scam: A Cold War Nuclear War Would Have Been the End
Key Point: The idea of civil defense was to help Americans survive a nuclear attack. However, both sides had enough terrifying weapons to prevent the other from attacking. America emerged from...
How World War I Ushered in the Century of Oil
On July 7, 1919, a group of U.S. military members dedicated Zero Milestone – the point from which all road distances in the country would be measured – just south...
Winning the Nuclear War? Here’s the Crazy Strategy America Tried in the 1950s
Key Point: All of these measures were necessary to enhance the credibility of America’s strategic deterrent, which ultimately prevented the civil defense plans from being needed at all. America emerged from...
Why God Liked Ike: Religion Belongs in American Foreign Policy
Alan Sears and Craig Osten with Ryan Cole, The Soul of an American President: The Untold Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Faith, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2019), 235 pp.,...