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Preamble

The Gulf of Time

By Lewis H. Lapham

An introduction to Lapham’s Quarterly.

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Leonidas at Thermopylae, by Jacques-Louis David, 1814.

Essay

The Persian Way of War

By Tom Holland

Unlike the Greeks, Xerxes viewed war as more than a simple matter of strategy. Rather, it was a means of flaunting global mastery.

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The Course of Empire: Destruction, by Thomas Cole, 1836.

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Storm Warning

By Caleb Carr

Are there meaningful parallels between America today and late imperial Rome, and will they suffer a similar fate?

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A composite image of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Generals, c. 1914.

Essay

Imperial Hubris: A German Tale

By Fritz Stern

War, Wilhelm II, and the consequences of leadership.

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View of Grbavica, a neighbourhood of Sarajevo, approximately 4 months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord that officially ended the war in Bosnia, 1996. Photograph by Lt. Stacey Wyzkowski.

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Band of Brigands

By John Mueller

The criminality of modern warfare.

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