Month: February 2014
Don’t Mention the War! – British Pundit Bemoans WW1 Centenary Coverage
With six months still to go until the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, some people have already had enough of the expansive media attention being paid to the commemorations. Simon…
Damn the Torpedoes! – How a 19th Century Innovation in Naval Warfare Produced the Military Industrial Complex
In his 1961 farewell address, outgoing president Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned of the dangers posed to the American republic by what he called “military industrial complex”. According to Ike, the armaments industry, which had…
