Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano , by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435–1460. National Gallery, London.

Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano, by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435–1460. National Gallery, London.

States of War

Volume 1, Number 1 | winter 2008

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Preamble

The Gulf of Time

By Lewis H. Lapham

An introduction to Lapham’s Quarterly.

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

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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Map

Fringe Benefits

Inventions, countries, and styles that came out of war.

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1962 | Washington, DC

Casus Belli

Disinforming Cubans.More

1805 | Cape Trafalgar

England Expects, Nelson Confides

How to word a rallying cry.More

1917 | Baghdad

The Gift of Freedom

Absolute and supreme liberators.More

Charts & Graphs

American Wars & Foreign Interventions

Military conflicts since the birth of the United States.

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American civil war general William Tecumseh Sherman.

War is sweet to those who don’t know it.

—Erasmus, 1508

Emperor of India Ashoka.

Former prime minister of Japan Murayama Tomiichi.

Ashoka & Murayama Tomiichi

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