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The year is 1905, the season is summer. Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis is in full swing, the First Moroccan Crisis has been papered over, and Norway has gained independence. But no matter. Turn your attention to the far side of Eurasia, in the corpse-choked lands of Manchuria and...

The nations of the Levant, North Africa, and points directly Eastward have not exactly had the best of 20th centuries. They seem unlikely to have the best of 21st centuries either. So change that. With a post WW1 POD. The first question here is what exactly are the bad things to be...

Part 1: Empty Polynesia “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Genesis I.6 (KJV) The Polynesian Expansion was and remains one of the great triumphs of human mind and courage. Wielding only Neolithic technology and...

Review - _The_Eagle_and_Africa - South_Africa_and_the_American_Mind, Erik Allsworthy (Boston University Press 1997) South Africa. Those two words have generated more heat and less light than any others in the English (or for that matter any other) language. The vast expanse of Africa...

“I have no doubt that as soon as he will receive a mission, he would be the kind of man who, to accomplish it and execute his orders, would risk encountering and fighting us” Horatio Nelson on admiral latouche-treville London, July 9 1804 Lieutenant general sir john Moore was a...