Why Israel Won’t Change

The War in Gaza Will Likely Reinforce the Country’s Rightward Tilt (Dahlia Scheindlin) Almost from the moment Hamas broke through Israel’s security barrier with the Gaza Strip on October 7 and began its rampage, it felt as if Israel would never be the same. Within hours, Israelis were forced to confront the reality that many …

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A Containment Strategy for Ukraine

How the West Can Help Kyiv Endure a Long War (Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage) On November 1, Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny, changed the debate about his country’s war with Russia with a statement. “Just like in the first World War,” he said in an interview with The Economist, the Ukrainian and Russian militaries “have reached …

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Taiwan and the True Sources of Deterrence

Why America Must Reassure, Not Just Threaten, China (Bonnie S. Glasser, et al.) The growing might of China’s military and its increasingly aggressive posture toward Taiwan have made deterrence in the Taiwan Strait a tougher challenge than ever before. It is incumbent on the United States to support Taiwan’s efforts to develop a defensive “porcupine …

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The Power of Convening (Hoover Institution Annual Report, 2023)

The world is at an inflection point. We live in the most uncertain geopolitical environment since the beginning of the Soviet Union’s collapse. At this juncture, the post–Cold War rules-based international order and American global leadership are facing multiple profound challenges. Russia, a declining power, has demonstrated in its ruthless invasion of Ukraine that it …

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Victory and the Savior Generals (Victor Davis Hanson)

What factors decide wars? Luck? Fervent ideology? Preponderance of material resources? Or is advantage achieved by superior manpower and morale? In modern times, is victory found largely in lethal cutting-edge technology? All these factors in varying degrees have in the past explained military success. Hernan Cortés’s destruction of the Aztec Empire (1521) was predicated on …

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Duelling Populisms (Victor Davis Hanson)

Populism is seen as both bad and good because people disagree about what it represents and intends. In the present age, there are two di!erent sorts of populism. Both strains originated in classical times and persist today. In antiquity, one type was known by elite writers of that time to be the “bad” populism. It …

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Hoover Digest: Research and Commentary; Fall 2023 (The Hoover Institution)

The Hoover Digest explores politics, economics, and history, guided by the scholars and researchers of the Hoover Institution, the public policy research center at Stanford University. The opinions expressed in the Hoover Digest are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, or their supporters. As …

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