AFRICA
Walwal to the World: Ethiopia, Empire, Abandoned Principles
How Italy’s strategic ambitions led to an end to the League of Nations and paved the way for World War II, the Cold War, and, indeed, the world of the 2020s.
Essential Reading
ESSENTIAL READING | The Outrageous and Innovative General Orde Wingate
Fire in the Night, by British journalists John Bierman and Colin Smith, examines the huge impact of a unique British officer, Major General Orde Wingate, who died in Burma in 1944 during World War II.
Essential Reading
ESSENTIAL READING | The Battle to Live “Like Free People”
Historian Benjamin Nathans of the University of Pennsylvania lifts his new book’s title from the traditional vodka toast of Soviet dissidents: to the “success of our hopeless cause”.
History
The Limits of Long-Range Planning
Plans of attack rarely survive the first shot. Flexibility, guided by strategic principles, is key.