02 July 2025

An Army Marches On Its ______

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For millennia before Napoleon, armies marched on their stomachs. While the hunger or health of an army was only one among many factors predi...
22 June 2025

History repeating

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The Western World awoke this morning to the somewhat expected news of American strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.( 1 ) As widely anticip...
20 June 2025

The Road Too Eagerly Taken

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In my previous post on weaponizing aid, I suggested that Cardinal Fleury's path to peace reflected not only a sincere and consistent pac...
17 June 2025

Weaponizing Aid

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Following the infamous Trump-Zelenskyy press conference at the end of February this year ( 1 ), the U.S. government notably, publicly, inten...
15 June 2025

The Limits of Hard Power

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Not as much deep history on this one; just some comments on what has seemed to grab the most headlines from outlets like Axios and the Inst...
13 June 2025

Quick Thoughts on Lion Rising (and which one that might be)

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Overnight, Israeli forces conducted some two hundred airstrikes and a variety of intelligence, sabotage, and assassination plots across Iran...
11 June 2025

A French Center?

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Geopolitics in Western Europe has been dominated by the United States since World War II. That happened for a variety of reasons, many of wh...
28 May 2025

Putting the Band (Barrier) Back Together?

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Earlier today, May 28, 2025, Finnish President Alexander Stubb gave an interview with CNN, reproduced on YouTube, here . I strongly suspect ...
23 May 2025

Revival

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Ten years ago, I started the Schumanities Blog as a scratch site to capture some ideas-in-progress as a professional historian, casual comme...
11 April 2015

Knowing is (Only) Half the Battle

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A week ago, the New York Times published a commentary on U.S. higher education that seems well worth considering: in short, if students wan...