Victor Davis Hanson: Iraq and the Lessons of the Peloponnesian War

Conversations with History: Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson; Senior Felllow, Hoover Institution.

Abstract: 

 Conversations Host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson for a discussion of the Peloponnesian War and its lessons for today. He compares that conflict with the war in Iraq. He talks about imperial ambition, the conflict between civilizations, and military power as an instrument to achieve democratization in the struggle between modernity and tradition.

KEYWORDS: Iraq, Nimitz Lecturers.

Author: 
Victor Davis Hanson
Publication date: 
March 13, 2006
Publication type: 
Conversations with History