Deterrence, Fast and Slow

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*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Two centuries ago, Napoleon embodied warfare’s changing character. This conqueror of Europe took advantage of new ways of thinking about warfare and its organization to bend Europe to his will. Of course, it wasn’t just the French emperor driving these…

War and Booze: The Story of Veuve Clicquot, Napoleon, and the First Modern Champagne

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Image courtesy of Veuve Clicquot.  I came across this fascinating story over the past week and couldn’t resist running it down and sharing it with readers (in the same way I did several months back with landpower’s role in the Rosetta Stone discovery).  Much, much, much, more important, however: my wife is a huge Veuve Clicquot fan and…