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A World Turned Upside Down

A World Turned Upside Down

Its author, Norman Angell, argued that because nations relied heavily on a highly intertwined global trading system, the economic cost of war would drastically outweigh any potential gains.

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War Watch: The Storm Cone

War Watch: The Storm Cone

Kipling published that poem only a year before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, with all that meant for England and the world.

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Government By Consent Of The Governed — Later On

Government By Consent Of The Governed — Later On

The Gulf of Tonkin lie used to escalate American intervention in Viet Nam, leading to millions of deaths at a cost of over a $1 trillion in today’s dollars, serves as a tragic example of how consent grudgingly followed government action.

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