The Legacy of Total War in the 21st Century

Number of words: 209 Though incompatible, the global economy and total war are both children of this century. The strategic goal in traditional warfare, in Clausewitz’s famous phrase, was “to destroy the enemy’s fighting forces.” War was to be waged against the enemy’s soldiers. It was not supposed to be waged against enemy civilians and … Read more

‘One of the great lies of life is follow your passions’ by Catherine Clifford

Number of words – 655 The argument about whether or not the universe had a beginning, persisted into the 19th and 20th centuries. It was conducted mainly on the basis of theology and philosophy, with little consideration of observational evidence. The cosmologist, Sir Arthur Eddington, once said, ‘Don’t worry if your theory doesn’t agree with … Read more