Fighting the Coronavirus `War´ Like It´s War
(WorldNews Denmark)

Some things that are written age better than others. I recall as a graduate student in history doing research at the Naval War College and gaining access to the classified papers of a notable admiral in the United States Navy. Buried in his 1947 thesis on the future of the atomic bomb in naval warfare, he predicted the use of tactical nuclear weapons: `What our forces did to the Japanese-held islands can be more easily repeated by atomic attacks.` Thankfully, that prediction has not aged well. Perhaps what follows will not age well either. But I am going to double down on concerns I expressed two weeks ago when I was still in Spanish quarantine watching events unfold there while Americans...