The French Military High Command after the first world war may have had the most unfortunate set of assumptions and beliefs of any High Command in history. I say unfortunate in light of the fact of how disastrous the French command dealt with the German invasion in the spring of 1940. But if one needs more evidence of “unfortunate” decisions by the French Generals, look no further than Operation Pike. While doing some light reading through my copy of The Collapse of the Third Republic by William Shirer, I had to do a Samuel Johnson double take. As someone who has read a fair bit about World War II, I was stunned by what I had just come across, that in the spring of 1940 the Allies came ridic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of school choice has come to the forefront as parents, despondent with the decisions and convenience of their public school, search elsewhere for schooling opportunities for their students. Most notably in these times are the learning pods; small groups of middle and upper-class students who leave public schooling behind in favor of small group classes. These new learning pods are the latest choice in school alternatives, they are not the first, but they highlight some of the greatest flaws in both the public schooling and school choice debate. History The early years As the United States gained its independence, we also considered student independe

In the middle of the present pandemic, SARS is a well-known acronym for the predecessor to COVID-19. Yet SARS right now is not just an acronym for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, but also for a mysterious and violent Nigerian police unit. SARS and the protests against it, shed light on the importance of balancing the civilian, military, and police spheres of a society. Nigeria in 1992 had a problem: the already-high violent crime rate was rising. Sensing a failure of the police to effectively combat crime, the Nigerian government established a new highly-militarized national police unit — the Special Anti-Robbery Squad — or better known by its acronym, SARS.[1] 28 years later, it is diffi