The last of a five-part guest post by Prof. Brien Hallett, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
“We Were Warriors” and Unarmed War
While viewing the film, “We Were Warriors,” the warlike character of the 1960 Nashville lunch counter sit-ins is hard to ignore (2000). Although James Lawson, the protest leader and organizer would no doubt [...]
The fourth in a five-part guest post by Prof. Brien Hallett, University of Hawai’i at Manoa. The series concludes on Monday.
Dead Birds and Armed War
Robert Gardner’s Dead Birds is a classic of 1960’s anthropology. The film was shot during a 1961-1963 expedition by the Peabody Museum at Harvard University to the Highlands of [...]
The third in a five-part guest post by Prof. Brien Hallett, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
Essential and Non-Essential Definitions
In thinking about how to define war, the first issue that one has to deal with is whether to define war as a mental or a material phenomenon. The issue returns one momentarily to Clausewitz’s [...]
The second in a five-part guest post by Prof. Brien Hallett, University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
A Frustrated Metamorphosis
Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) was a Prussian general whose career encompassed the entire span of the French wars of Revolution and Empire (1792-1815). His unfinished manuscript, On War (1976), has dominated discussions of war since the late [...]
Back in February I reprinted my article “Why the Civil Rights Movement Was an Insurgency,” which was published in the Spring 2010 issue of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. The piece sparked a number of comments, including two objecting to my characterization of the movement as an insurgency.
I also received a [...]
