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Home / News & Media / From the desk of the President / A Historian ‘At the Height of Her Literary Powers’
From the desk of the President
Dec. 3, 2020

A Historian ‘At the Height of Her Literary Powers’

Anthony Wilson-Smith, President & CEO, Historica Canada • Policy Magazine

War, the iconic 19th century Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously observed, “is a continuation of politics by other means.” Or, if you prefer the same sentiment differently phrased, consider Mao Tse-Tung: “Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.”

Either way, the point is the same: while we like to think of taking up weapons as an unnatural step, doing so has been as much a part of human behaviour as other, more peaceful means for as long as we have been on this earth. [MORE]

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