Victor Davis Hanson’s blog

A friend tipped me off to the blog of Mr Victor Davis Hanson. I am grateful and eager to pass on this excellent recommendation to anyone with an interest in the classics, foreign affiars, and military history.
Quoting from Victor Hanson’s bio, he is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor emeritus at California University, Fresno, [...]

Ancient Greek Astronomical Dial Keeping Track of the Olympics

An interesting article in the Scientific American on an astronomical device, known as the Antikythera mechanism, complete with graphics and a slideshow, throws light into how the ancients used instruments to predict eclipses and keep track of recurrent (sports) events.

Lessons Learned from Thucydides

 

I keep coming across a lot of classical references recently with relation to the domain of politics, grand strategy and strategic thinking in general.
Here is a most engaging chapter
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from a book Theory of War and Strategy, published by the U.S. Army War College. The author, R. Craig Nation, has served as Professor of Strategy and [...]