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Dec 7, 2024 | 
fltimes.com | Joel Freedman |Brendan Simms |Charlie Laderman
In “Hitler’s American Gamble,” British historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman concluded that it was Adolf Hitler’s Declaration of War on the United States on Dec. 11, 1941, more than the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
tjvnews.com | Sholom Schreirber |Charlie Laderman |Phillips Payson O’Brien
REVIEW: ‘The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler—How War Made Them and How They Made War’ by Phillips Payson O’BrienBy: Charlie LadermanWhen the First World War broke out, Joseph Stalin was as far from the corridors of power as it was possible to be. Exiled in Siberia, this penniless middle-aged Marxist with a flair for bank heists and political assassinations was a failure and he knew it.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Charlie Laderman
AbstractWith the election of Donald Trump as US president again, the ‘Great Debate’ about transatlantic burden-sharing for the defence of Europe that started in 1950, but remained subdued during and since the Cold War, has reached a head and will determine the future of transatlantic relations. Trump has regularly suggested, often vituperatively, that he believes the cost of NATO outweighs the benefits.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
realcleardefense.com | Charlie Laderman
What They Learned From the Last War REVIEW: 'The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler—How War Made Them and How They Made War' by Phillips Payson O’Brien Read Full Article »
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Charlie Laderman
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
freebeacon.com | Charlie Laderman
When the First World War broke out, Joseph Stalin was as far from the corridors of power as it was possible to be. Exiled in Siberia, this penniless middle-aged Marxist with a flair for bank heists and political assassinations was a failure and he knew it. Likewise, in Germany, another nondescript and undistinguished misanthrope was scraping a living together as an artist.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Charlie Laderman
‘The prime obligation of the defence of Western Continental Europe rests upon the nations of Europe,’ thundered the former President of the United States. Until those nations paid up and started spending more on their own defence, the US should not ‘land another man or another dollar on their shores’. And if they refused to do so, he suggested the US could pull back from continental Europe and rely on its air and naval forces to defend its homeland and surrounding oceans.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
kcl.ac.uk | Charlie Laderman |Jade McGlynn
Guest Lecturer: Professor Angela StentThe United States, Europe, Russia, China and the New World Disorder. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 ended the post-Cold War global order that had emerged three decades ago out of the ashes of a politically and economically bankrupt Soviet Union – combined with China’s integration with the world economy.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
engelsbergideas.com | Charlie Laderman
‘Hell is breaking loose in Lebanon,’ the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council this week. But this conflagration did not erupt from nowhere. A new war between Israel and Hizbollah has been on the horizon for years. And UN officials, as well as many of the organisation’s leading nations, have watched the inferno descending while doing little to prevent it. The United Nations has had an interim force on the border between Israel and Lebanon since 1978.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
tandfonline.com | Charlie Laderman
AbstractThere are parallels between the run-up to the United States’ entry into the Second World War in 1941 and the contemporary geopolitical environment. Authoritarian aggression has again produced war in Europe and threatens conflict in Asia. While new research on the path to war in December 1941 offers no neatly packaged lessons, it does present five enduring dilemmas. Firstly, it only takes one side to believe war is inevitable for it to materialise.
